![]() Selecting and promoting books for young readers is an act rich in potential and fraught with responsibility. ![]() They can call us to be more humane and more connected, to see beyond what we think we know to imagine what might be. In short, stories can change the ways we see ourselves and others. In The Call of Stories: Teaching and the Moral Imagination, Robert Coles (1989) writes about the power of story to help each of us " find a good way to live this life, " of how " responding to the moral imagination of writers " can bring us to understand ourselves better but also to embrace " the moral imperative of fellow human beings in need " (p. The 2016 Notable Books for a Global Society winners, individually and collectively, issue to readers an invitation to live wide open to multiple voices and possibilities while also developing insight into who they are, who they might be, and how they might engage to make the world a better place for each person in it. TO LIVE IN a global society means to live with awareness that we are not in this world alone. He suggests ways to work with teachers to teach deep readings of these books. All these books demand a dynamic and recursive reading process. The author also argues that, depending where along the continuum each of these books is located, a reader’s stance moves along the continuum of efferent to aesthetic experience. He argues that in the best of these books, the poetry or poetic devices are synergistic with the content and raise the overall reading experience. He examines well-established criteria in the fields of picture books, children’s nonfiction, and poetry that can apply to poetic nonfiction picture books. This article addresses three questions about poetic nonfiction picture books: first, how might we categorize picture books that represent this hybrid text? second, by what criteria might we evaluate the quality of these books? third, based in Rosenblatt’s concept of reader’s stance, how might we read these books? The author develops a typology of six categories along a continuum from poetry to narrative or expository prose. This important form of hybrid text has been sparsely examined. ![]() ![]() An increasingly prevalent and accessible form of hybrid nonfiction picture books blends factual information with poetry or poetic devices to create literary nonfiction. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |