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Direct linkEvans, Janet – Education 3-13, 2016
This article gives a brief overview of reader response theory before sharing the views of some nine-year-old children working collaboratively as part of a community of readers. Prior to responding to some philosophical picturebooks the children talked about what they thought philosophy was, they then shared their thoughts on some of the very…
Descriptors: Philosophy, Childrens Literature, Children, Picture Books
Larkin-Lieffers, Patricia A. – Literacy, 2010
Images of childhood are ideas and expectations of childhood and children, and are reflections of individual perception and cultural ideologies. In writing children's books, authors draw on their conscious and unconscious thoughts of childhood to create an implied reader. In this paper I investigate images of childhood through examination of the…
Descriptors: Children, Reader Text Relationship, Young Children, Early Reading
Peer reviewedTrousdale, Ann M. – New Advocate, 1995
Discusses one seven-year-old girl's responses to three feminist folktales. Finds that for each tale, the girl was drawn to the female protagonist and named her as her favorite character, but the girl did not wish to emulate the female protagonists because of their unconventionality. Suggests that such tales may offer alternative models of female…
Descriptors: Children, Childrens Literature, Elementary Education, Fairy Tales
Peer reviewedAnderson, Dianna D.; Many, Joyce E. – Reading Horizons, 1992
Analyzes, from a reader-response perspective, children's free responses to story characters in nontraditional roles. Investigates the relationship of gender for these responses. Finds that only 20-30 percent of the responses expressed opinions regarding appropriateness of nontraditional gender roles and that the most common response type was…
Descriptors: Children, Grade 3, Primary Education, Reader Response
Peer reviewedLehr, Susan; Thompson, Deborah L. – Reading Teacher, 2000
Analyzes the conversations and writings of 2 ethnically diverse populations of fifth-grade children (ages 10 and 11) in response to the powerful and difficult themes contained in two award-winning children's books. Discusses the child's voice; the teacher's role as cultural mediator; responses at the literal level; reading between the lines;…
Descriptors: Children, Childrens Literature, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades
Peer reviewedSipe, Lawrence R. – Theory into Practice, 1999
Examines how researchers can study children's interaction with literature, discussing various perspectives that can be taken on children's literary responses and suggesting lines of inquiry and concepts that might be useful for the continued examination of children's responses. Focuses on the author, the literary text itself, the reader, and the…
Descriptors: Authors, Children, Childrens Literature, Context Effect
