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Peer reviewedHeyde, Emma – Children's Literature in Education, 2000
Examines Gary Crew's novel written for a young adult audience, called "Strange Objects," a story containing verifiable historical fact interwoven with elements of fiction and the supernatural. Shows how the numerous genres and viewpoints in the book challenge and contradict one another, forcing young readers to perform resistant readings…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Novels
Gibbs, Colin – Australian Journal of Reading, 1988
Discusses how beginning readers respond to familiar and unfamiliar stories. States that children begin as inventive readers, using different strategies--such as naming, counting, or structuring--to "read" the text. (MM)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Context Clues, Prereading Experience, Primary Education
Tobin, Barbara – 1990
In the 1970s and 1980s the white Australian author Patricia Wrightson's cross-cultural fantasies concerning the conflict of White characters with Aboriginal folk spirits struck a chord with many adolescent and adult readers who judged these novels to be outstandingly successful. A classroom-based study examined the responses of a class of seventh…
Descriptors: Adults, Case Studies, Childrens Literature, Fantasy
