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The Early Reader in Children's Literature and Culture - Theorizing Books for Beginning Readers (Paperback)
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The Early Reader in Children's Literature and Culture - Theorizing Books for Beginning Readers (Paperback)
Series: Children's Literature and Culture
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This is the first volume to consider the popular literary category
of Early Readers - books written and designed for children who are
just beginning to read independently. It argues that Early Readers
deserve more scholarly attention and careful thought because they
are, for many younger readers, their first opportunity to engage
with a work of literature on their own, to feel a sense of mastery
over a text, and to experience pleasure from the act of reading
independently. Using interdisciplinary approaches that draw upon
and synthesize research being done in education, child psychology,
sociology, cultural studies, and children's literature, the volume
visits Early Readers from a variety of angles: as teaching tools;
as cultural artifacts that shape cultural and individual
subjectivity; as mass produced products sold to a niche market of
parents, educators, and young children; and as aesthetic objects,
works of literature and art with specific conventions. Examining
the reasons such books are so popular with young readers, as well
as the reasons that some adults challenge and censor them, the
volume considers the ways Early Readers contribute to the
construction of younger children as readers, thinkers, consumers,
and as gendered, raced, classed subjects. It also addresses
children's texts that have been translated and sold around the
globe, examining them as part of an increasingly transnational
children's media culture that may add to or supplant regional,
ethnic, and national children's literatures and cultures. While
this collection focuses mostly on books written in English and
often aimed at children living in the US, it is important to
acknowledge that these Early Readers are a major US cultural
export, influencing the reading habits and development of children
across the globe.
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