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Equipping Space Cadets - Primary Science Fiction for Young Children (Hardcover)
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Equipping Space Cadets - Primary Science Fiction for Young Children (Hardcover)
Series: Children's Literature Association Series
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Equipping Space Cadets: Primary Science Fiction for Young Children
argues for the benefits and potential of "primary science fiction,"
or science fiction for children under twelve years old. Science
fiction for children is often disregarded due to common
misconceptions of childhood. When children are culturally portrayed
as natural and simple, then they seem like a poor audience for the
complex scientific questions brought up by the best science
fiction. The books and the children who read them tell another
story. Using three empirical studies and over 350 children's books
including If I Had a Robot Dog, Bugs in Space, and Commander Toad
in Space, Equipping Space Cadets presents interdisciplinary
evidence that science fiction and children are compatible after
all. Primary science fiction literature includes many high-quality
books that cleverly utilize the features of children's literature
formats in order to fit large science fiction questions into small
packages. In the best of these books, authors make science fiction
questions accessible and relevant to children of various reading
levels and from diverse backgrounds and identities. Equipping Space
Cadets does not stop with literary analysis, but also presents the
voices of real children and practitioners. The book features three
studies: a survey of teachers and librarians, quantitative analysis
of lending records from school libraries across the United States,
and coded read-aloud sessions with elementary school students. The
results reveal how children are interested in and capable of
reading science fiction, but it is the adults, including the most
well-intentioned librarians and teachers, who hinder children's
engagement with the genre due to their own preconceptions about the
genre and children.
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