From: Nancy Bo Flood <wflood>
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:26:17 -0700

May I simply say, of course. Reading is an interaction between reader and book. The child brings to the book their own needs and understanding. As Jane Yolen has written and described, in the white spaces between words, we the reader supply our own, our own images. If we don't, the book has little meaning. Reading involves imagining.

Nancy Bo Flood

  author of Navajo Year, Walk Through Many Seasons, A Children's Choice and Arizona Book of the Year
  Sand to Stone, the Life Cycle of Sandstone



> From: pearsoncrz at earthlink.net
> To: ccbc-net at lists.education.wisc.edu
> Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:31:53 -0500
> 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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