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Authenticity, Accuracy, and Respect in Picturebooks About Africa: Implications for Pedagogy in the United States
This is a conceptual paper that explores critiquing picturebooks set in Africa. The paper is grounded in BlackCrit (Black Critical Theory) and Racial...
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The Power of Picturebooks to Support Early Elementary Teachers’ Racial Literacy in Communities of Practice: An Example from the 3Rs (Reading, Racial Equity, Relationships)
In this article, we provide an overview of the ways one ecosystem-based literacy program uses high quality racially affirming picturebooks with...
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Facilitating Critical Discussion of Picturebooks Through Socratic Seminars in a Kindergarten Classroom
The aim of this research was to investigate how young students can be supported to use Socratic Seminar as a tool for critical thinking skills and...
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Supporting Children Through Grief: A Content Analysis of Picturebooks About Death
While society attempts to shield children from death, many are exposed to and impacted by death in their early years, either through the death of...
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Metafictive devices in children’s picturebooks and the development of children’s critical multimodal literacies
High-quality children’s literature, including picturebooks, are important resources in the classroom for students to engage with complex and...
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Using Māori-English Dual Language Picturebooks to Support the Enactment of Language Policy in Aotearoa New Zealand Educational Contexts
Since 2000, there has been an increase in the number of picturebooks published in Aotearoa New Zealand featuring Māori and English text in a...
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Picturebooks for Social Justice: Creating a Classroom Community Grounded in Identity, Diversity, Justice, and Action
This article highlights the Picturebooks for Social Justice approach which the author developed within her preschool program. Picturebooks for Social...
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Picturebooks in the Primary Grades: Representation and the Stories Shared About Who Belongs in STEM
This study investigates the representation of diversity in STEM picture books for the primary grades. Research suggests that the inclusion or...
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The Relationship Between Shared Picturebook Reading and Language Development in Young Children
Picturebooks can play an important function in the development of language by promoting language acquisition and enriching the overall language...
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Using Wordless Picturebooks as Stimuli for Dialogic Engagement
In this chapter we explore how collaborative meanings can be made as teachers and young children (six-year-olds) engage together in reading wordless...
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How multimodality matters in children’s literature scholarship
To consider whether multimodality matters, literacy researchers and educators must first explore the theoretical foundations of social semiotics and...
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An Investigation of English Children’s Literature in Pakistani Schools (PreK—Grade 3)
Children’s literature in the form of picturebooks, storybooks, and anthologies/readers in Pre-Kindergarten (PreK) to Grade 3 holds a special place in...
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The Other Side: Preschool Children’s Experience of a Read-Aloud Focused on Social Justice
The purpose of this article is to detail preschool age students’ exploration of social justice as they cocreated with their teacher an interactive...
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Creative Ways to Approach the Theme of Cultural Diversity in Wordless Picturebooks Through Visual Reading and Thinking
Cultural diversity, as one of the most important characteristics of European community in the framework of the DIALLS project (see Chapter...
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Kindergarten Children’s Talk About Illustration Techniques in an Almost Wordless Picturebook
During a classroom-based study that featured wordless and almost wordless picturebooks, instruction and adult mediation communicated to Kindergarten...
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Hel** Young Children to Cope with the Loss of an Older Adult: Developmental Perspectives and Picturebooks as a Resource
A secure bond between people relies on reciprocal trust, provides stability, and promotes a sense of security. If a young child is attached to an...
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What’s the Story with Storytime?: An Examination of Preschool Teachers’ Drama-Based and Shared Reading Practices During Picturebook Read-Aloud
Preschool picturebook read-alouds have the power to capture the attention of young students by providing an immersive experience that stimulates...
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The Effect of Interactive Picturebook Reading on Problem-Solving Skills in Preschool: A Quasi-Experiment
Interactive picturebook reading is an easily accessible and enjoyable activity that provides preschoolers with opportunities to practice...
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Communicating Climate Change Risk to Children: A Thematic Analysis of Children’s Literature
Children are crucial to the future of climate change leadership, and even as youth, they have the ability to make a difference in achieving climate...
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Emergency Children’s Literature: Rapidly Representing COVID-19 in Digital Texts for Young People in the United Kingdom
This chapter investigates the appearance of picturebooks and stories which sought to rapidly mediate the first waves of COVID-19, circulated online...