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Author:

Mikkelsen, Nina.

Title:

Powerful magic : learning from children's responses to fantasy literature / Nina Mikkelsen ; foreword by Laurence Yep.

Publisher:

Teachers College Press,

Copyright Date:

c2005

Description:

x, 193 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Children--Psychological aspects.--Psychological aspects.
Children's literature--Psychological aspects.
Fantasy literature--Psychological aspects.
Literacy--Philosophy.
Enfants--Aspect psychologique.--Aspect psychologique.
Littérature de jeunesse--Aspect psychologique.
Littérature fantastique--Aspect psychologique.
Alphabétisation--Philosophie.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-187) and index.

Contents:

Children's ways of reading -- I: The child and the book -- Stepping into response: Alexander and the wind-up mouse -- Inside the world of The Snowman: different ways of seeing -- II: The reading transaction -- Alexander in the classroom: many voices, many literacies -- A deeper look at aesthetic literacy: Brooke and Louis the fish -- Louis in the classroom: the transactional literary conversation -- III: Children as research partners -- Fighting the dragon--and winning: The Hobbit -- Into the woods: the magical adventures of pretty Pearl.

Series:

Language and literacy series

ISBN:

9780807745960 (acid-free paper)
0807745960 (acid-free paper)
9780807745953 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
0807745952 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

LCCN:

2005045706

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

IAOX771 -- State Library of Iowa (Des Moines)

O3AX572 -- Cornell College - Russell D. Cole Library (Mount Vernon)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)

PWAX296 -- Southeastern Community College - West Burlington - Yohe Memorial Library (West Burlington)