“This stellar book extends teachers’ thinking well beyond 'book spaces' and into 'digital spaces' by offering theorized approaches to analyzing children’s literature across media, and careful descriptions of effective learning activities that are rich in detail and practical advice. This book (and its digital spaces) is an indispensable guide to engaging with children’s literature and new digital media.”
Michele Knobel, Montclair State University, USA.“The book overall is exciting, informative and practical, outlining important theoretical perspectives and ideas while also providing much wisdom and advice to teachers about how to transform their literary programs.”
Frances Christie, Emeritus Professor of Language andLiteracy Education, University of Melbourne and HonoraryProfessor of Education, University of Sydney, Australia.This book connects classroom teaching of children’s literature with the digital age. It celebrates the charm of children’s literature and its role in literacy development, as well as the appeal of information and communications technology (ICT) to students and its capacity to enrich students’ learning and enjoyment of literary texts.
The authors outline the ways in which children’s literature is developing new dimensions, for example:
The book provides practical guidance for teachers who areinexperienced with ICT. It describes and discussesimplementation of activities that extend traditional approaches toliterary texts and take advantage of available technology.
- The re-publication of children’s books on CD ROM and the world wide web
- Web resources for working with literary texts, including e-mail discussion groups
- Children’s participation in the collaborative construction of online narratives
- ISBN13 9780335216369
- Publish Date 16 June 2005 (first published 1 January 2005)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 8 December 2022
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Open University Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 152
- Language English