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Powerful Magic: Learning From Children's Responses To Fantasy Literature
This book delves deeply into children's responses to literature, and in particular, to works of fantasy.
193 pages, Paperback
First published August 8, 2005
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August 13, 2021
These are just notes for a university essay that I want to save for future use.
1. Nina Mikkelsen’s book looks at play and how children engage with fantasy books and the fantastical in books. This is done by looking at different ways of interpreting literature and how the same book can engender different interpretations and responses across a variety of fields. Mikkelsen looks at the responses of different children, of the same child in one reading, and of the same child across multiple readings. She looks at how children can shape and reshape fantasy literature.
2. Mikkelsen has a previously published work Words and Pictures: Lessons in Children's Literature and Literacies. She received her Ph.D. in English from the Florida State University and later completed courses in children’s literature at Ohio State University. She has been both an elementary and middle school teacher and a college professor, although there is no mention of where she taught.
3. Mikkelsen’s books an older book published in 2005, but I appreciate the way it looks at how children engage with the text in different (and playful ways) This approach and the importance of play that Mikkelsen examines could be used to argue that this can be used to understand different articles and rights (and the connections between them!). I think the entire book is valuable for arguing about the value of Article 31 and the rights of play since this is what she emphasizes. She focuses primarily on picture books, with some chapter books later on, but the ideas she addresses and the way she looks at how children respond to and shape the fantasy literature they read will be useful for my own look at play—especially since I can’t do any research with kids.
1. Nina Mikkelsen’s book looks at play and how children engage with fantasy books and the fantastical in books. This is done by looking at different ways of interpreting literature and how the same book can engender different interpretations and responses across a variety of fields. Mikkelsen looks at the responses of different children, of the same child in one reading, and of the same child across multiple readings. She looks at how children can shape and reshape fantasy literature.
2. Mikkelsen has a previously published work Words and Pictures: Lessons in Children's Literature and Literacies. She received her Ph.D. in English from the Florida State University and later completed courses in children’s literature at Ohio State University. She has been both an elementary and middle school teacher and a college professor, although there is no mention of where she taught.
3. Mikkelsen’s books an older book published in 2005, but I appreciate the way it looks at how children engage with the text in different (and playful ways) This approach and the importance of play that Mikkelsen examines could be used to argue that this can be used to understand different articles and rights (and the connections between them!). I think the entire book is valuable for arguing about the value of Article 31 and the rights of play since this is what she emphasizes. She focuses primarily on picture books, with some chapter books later on, but the ideas she addresses and the way she looks at how children respond to and shape the fantasy literature they read will be useful for my own look at play—especially since I can’t do any research with kids.
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