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Zou, Ying – Children's Literature in Education, 2023
Didacticism is an indispensable factor in the study of children's literature, not only within the text, but also within activities such as choosing books. This article explores didacticism in children's literature and the parent-child power structure within the relatively unexplored area of the book choices of Chinese parents and children who read…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Parents, Childrens Literature
Fleta, M. Teresa – Children's Literature in Education, 2022
This study explores the potential of illustrated barcodes of picturebooks in the educational context. The study reviews the modification by artists of conventional and mandatory barcodes into creative barcode placements in picturebooks. By raising awareness of the aesthetic subtleties of barcodes, the paper articulates how these attractive and…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Teaching Methods, Aesthetics, Picture Books
Rudin, Shai – Children's Literature in Education, 2022
This study examines illustrations of girls in Israeli children's literature of the years 1948-2019. 54 illustrated books for children in which the image of a girl is at the center were analyzed. The illustrations were examined according to two key periods: 1940s-1976, and 1977-2019. The research findings did not confirm the conventional…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Foreign Countries, Feminism, Illustrations
Vaughn, Margaret; Sotirovska, Vera; Darragh, Janine J.; Elhess, Mohamed – Children's Literature in Education, 2022
Given increased attention toward nonfiction and informational texts due to recent educational reforms in the nation, it is critical to examine how various cultural identities are depicted in nonfiction children's picture books. Focusing on the Orbis Pictus honor and awarded texts (n = 60) from 1990 to 2019, this article reports the findings of a…
Descriptors: Personal Autonomy, Childrens Literature, Picture Books, Nonfiction
Terrile, Vikki C. – Children's Literature in Education, 2022
While there is still much to be done, there have been tremendous strides made in increasing the diversity of children's literature; however one area that is often overlooked in these conversations is social class. From years of providing picture book story time to young children living in homeless shelters, it became obvious that picture books…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Social Class, Picture Books, Housing
Daly, Nicola – Children's Literature in Education, 2021
Children's literature has an important role to play in developing knowledge of the world, and learning to understand the feelings of others. A growing body of literature explores the role of dual language picturebooks (parallel, interlingual and simultaneous) in drawing on the linguistic capital of multilingual children in classrooms. There is…
Descriptors: Empathy, Language Acquisition, Language Attitudes, Children
Depicting Dementia: Representations of Cognitive Health and Illness in Ten Picturebooks for Children
Caldwell, Elizabeth F.; Falcus, Sarah; Sako, Katsura – Children's Literature in Education, 2021
It is estimated that a third of children know someone living with dementia, and there are now many picturebooks for young children that help to explain the changes dementia can bring to family life. Despite their number, there has been little examination of what these books communicate about health and illness. To address this, the current study…
Descriptors: Dementia, Childrens Literature, Picture Books, Health
Iordanaki, Lina – Children's Literature in Education, 2021
This article explores 11-year-old children's connections to prior knowledge and experiences while reading a wordless version of "Little Red Riding Hood." The study extends pre-existing research on reader response theories by focusing on images instead of written text. The approach taken places emphasis on the reader's active engagement,…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Picture Books, Prior Learning, Reader Response
Myers, Lindsay – Children's Literature in Education, 2021
Oliver Jeffers' best-selling picturebook "How to Catch a Star" has been the subject of several recent theatre adaptations for children. This paper provides a detailed case study of the 2017 stage adaptation created by the Irish-language, theatre company, "Branar Téatar do Pháistí"; an adaptation which has been highly praised…
Descriptors: Picture Books, Childrens Literature, Media Adaptation, Drama
Mackey, Margaret – Children's Literature in Education, 2021
This article presents a small case study of two childhood readers of Enid Blyton's Famous Five series, who meet in a research project devoted to a different but related topic. One is Indian by birth and background, the other, Canadian. Their experience of this series is separated by distance (many thousands of miles), time of reading (nearly fifty…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Reader Response, Fiction, Memory
You, Chengcheng – Children's Literature in Education, 2021
The study focuses on the necessity of an anthropomorphic approach in deconstructing the symbolic understandings of animals in children's literature, and considers how such an approach can be used to draw ethical attention to the unnatural history of animals in the Anthropocene. The paper analyses three children's novels that depict animals without…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Symbolic Language, Literary Styles, Animals
Myers, Lindsay – Children's Literature in Education, 2021
Oliver Jeffers' best-selling picturebook "How to Catch a Star" (2004) has been the subject of several recent theatre adaptations for children. This paper provides a detailed case study of the 2017 stage adaptation created by the Irish-language theatre-company, Branar Téatar do Pháistí; an adaptation that has been highly praised for the…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Picture Books, Theater Arts, Foreign Countries
Sciurba, Katie; Hernandez, Sera J.; Barton, Reka C. – Children's Literature in Education, 2021
In response to current anti-immigration rhetoric and policy coming from national leadership, the authors engage in multimodal analysis of picture books that humanize individuals who make the journey across the Mexico-U.S. border. Findings suggest that picture book narratives restory anti-immigrant sentiments by (1) placing the child at the center…
Descriptors: Immigration, Foreign Countries, Content Analysis, Picture Books
Gomez-Najarro, Joyce – Children's Literature in Education, 2020
In delivering instruction aligned with the Common Core State Standards, many teachers are utilizing the accompanying book exemplars. While prior studies have revealed the importance of selecting texts that represent diverse characters, few studies have examined the extent to which the book exemplars reflect this trend. In this paper, an…
Descriptors: Common Core State Standards, Books, Reading Material Selection, Childrens Literature
Blackford, Holly; Lockhart, Anna – Children's Literature in Education, 2020
This essay deploys an animal studies, posthumanist approach to Laura's identification with Jack and horses throughout the "Little House" series. Part wolf and partly domesticated, Jack mediates the impossible longings within Laura to be free and yet under control--to be independent yet maintain the approval of her parents, especially her…
Descriptors: Animals, Novels, Childrens Literature, Identification (Psychology)
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