From: Miskec, Jennifer <miskecjm>
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:20:10 -0400

Of course it is possible to read books differently as children. But it would be a mistake to make the leap to say that children read any certain way merely because they are children, and that adults read another way merely because they are adults. I read books differently today than I did when I was younger not because then I read like a child and now I read like an adult in some categorizable way, but because I have changed as a person. Reader response is very personal and individual endeavor that has to do our experience and repertoire, not our age.

Dr. Jennifer M. Miskec Assistant Professor of Children's and Young Adult Literature Director, Children's Literature Minor Department of English and Modern Languages Longwood University http://www.longwood.edu/staff/miskecjm/
________________________________________ From: ccbc-net-bounces at lists.education.wisc.edu [ccbc-net-bounces at lists.education.wisc.edu] On Behalf Of Claudia Pearson [pearsoncrz at earthlink.net] Sent: Monday, July 20, 2009 10:31 PM To: ccbc-net at lists.education.wisc.edu Subject: Re: [CCBC-Net] Hidden Adult/manipulation

Isn't it possible to read books differently as children? This is not to say there is not a shadow text, but rather that a child might construct it differently, read the book with a "resistent" attitude, such as Fetterly suggests?

I know of at least two children's book texts which could be read from either the child's point of view or an adult point of view: Margaret Wise Brown's Runaway Bunny and Goodnight Moon.

Is it possible that we are looking at children's books as adults rather than as children?

Claudia Pearson pearsoncrz at earthlink.net




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