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Adult authors, young readers, and shared experiences.

Lindsey Geybels — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 14:52:04 +0000

Children’s literature is often marked by an imbalance in age, as adult authors write for young readers. For this article, Vanessa Joosen interviewed seven children’s and young adult authors – Aidan Chambers, Guus Kuijer, Jacqueline Wilson, Anne Fine, David Almond, Joke Van Leeuwen, and Bart Moeyaert – to investigate how they negotiate and reflect on… Continue reading Adult authors, young readers, and shared experiences.

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Perfectly imperfect mothers: breaking the “Good Mom Myth”

Lindsey Geybels — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 14:38:53 +0000

In western, contemporary societies, a woman is considered a “good mother” when she is at all times emotionally present and selfless, placing her children’s desires and needs before her own. Although this image of “good mothering” is often reproduced and thereby affirmed in children’s literature, so-called “alter-tales” – counterstories that voice different experiences of motherhood… Continue reading Perfectly imperfect mothers: breaking the “Good Mom Myth”

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Becoming wiser over time

Lindsey Geybels — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 12:16:47 +0000

In this article, Leander Duthoy discusses how child and adult readers of children’s literature use the concepts of innocence and wisdom as age norms to reflect both on their own age and the age of fictional characters. He gathered data through semi-structured interviews and focus-group discussions with readers aged nine to seventy-five. In these conversations,… Continue reading Becoming wiser over time

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Adult authors and child characters experiencing memory

Frauke Pauwels — Sat, 22 Oct 2022 07:52:53 +0000

This essay demonstrates the fruitfulness of applying a lens based on 4E-inspired cognitive narratology to David Almond’s My Name is Mina (2010) in order to illuminate how the so-called cognitive-affective imbalance between children and adults needs reassessing, especially when it comes to memory. Merging recent developments in 4E – or embodied, embedded, extended, and enactive… Continue reading Adult authors and child characters experiencing memory

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