Powerful magic : learning from children's responses to fantasy literature /
Nina Mikkelsen ; foreword by Laurence Yep.
- New York : Teachers College Press, c2005.
- x, 193 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
- Language and literacy series .
- Language and literacy series (New York, N.Y.) .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-187) and index.
PART I. Children's ways of reading : 1. The child and the book - 2. Stepping into response: Alexander and the wind-up mouse - 2. Inside the world of The Snowman: different ways of seeing. PART II. The reading transaction : 3. Alexander in the classroom: many voices, many literacies - 4. A deeper look at aesthetic literacy: Brooke and Louis the fish - 5. Louis in the classroom: the transactional literary conversation. PART III. Children as research partners : 6. Fighting the dragon--and winning: The Hobbit - 7. Into the woods: the magical adventures of pretty Pearl. Conclusion: Embracing fantasy, inviting response.