{"title":"The Role of Plants in Contemporary Swedish and Norwegian Picturebooks","authors":"Beatrice G. Reed","doi":"10.3366/ircl.2024.0559","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2024.0559","url":null,"abstract":"The plant kingdom is vital to all other life on earth and is a fundamental part of children’s culture. Yet, we have little knowledge about how plants are currently represented in picturebooks aimed at children. In this article, I conduct a quantitative analysis of plant motifs in picturebooks published in Sweden and Norway in 2020. Inspired by concepts drawn from ecocritical children’s literature research and critical plant studies, the article investigates which plant species and types the books contain and how they are presented through text and pictures. Although the study finds that plants are prevalent motifs in contemporary Swedish and Norwegian picturebooks, it also shows that vegetal entities are often backgrounded and depicted as generic plant types.","PeriodicalId":163936,"journal":{"name":"International Research in Children's Literature","volume":"32 37","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141233027","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Children's Cultures after Childhood by Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak and Macarena García-González","authors":"Lydia Kokkola","doi":"10.3366/ircl.2024.0567","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2024.0567","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":163936,"journal":{"name":"International Research in Children's Literature","volume":"9 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141228763","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Building Children's Worlds: The Representation of Architecture and Modernity in Picturebooks edited by Torsten Schmiedeknecht, Jill Rudd, and Emma Hayward","authors":"Manle Li, Haifeng Hui","doi":"10.3366/ircl.2024.0568","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2024.0568","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":163936,"journal":{"name":"International Research in Children's Literature","volume":"33 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141234888","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Teens on TikTok: Understanding Young People’s Digital Agency as Practice","authors":"Emilie Owens","doi":"10.3366/ircl.2024.0562","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2024.0562","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores how young people – specifically teenagers between thirteen and nineteen years of age – choose to use the digital video-sharing app TikTok. A framework is proposed that moves away from discourses of media panic and toward understandings of media practice, analysing two videos created by teenagers to develop a vocabulary for identifying the diverse and nuanced ways in which young people negotiate their social lives through the use of TikTok.","PeriodicalId":163936,"journal":{"name":"International Research in Children's Literature","volume":"11 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141229716","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Equipping Space Cadets: Primary Science Fiction for Young Children by Emily Midkiff","authors":"Kelly Keus","doi":"10.3366/ircl.2024.0566","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2024.0566","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":163936,"journal":{"name":"International Research in Children's Literature","volume":"7 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141229521","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Children and Biography: Reading and Writing Life Stories by Kate Douglas","authors":"Helma van Lierop-Debrauwer","doi":"10.3366/ircl.2024.0571","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2024.0571","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":163936,"journal":{"name":"International Research in Children's Literature","volume":"12 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141235436","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Enseñando a sentir. Repertorios éticos en la ficción infantil [Teaching how to feel: ethical repertoires in fiction for children] by Macarena García González","authors":"Evelyn Arizpe","doi":"10.3366/ircl.2024.0551","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2024.0551","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":163936,"journal":{"name":"International Research in Children's Literature","volume":"57 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139813739","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A representação da criança na literatura infantojuvenil [The representation of children in children's literature] by Isabel Lopes Coelho","authors":"Elizabeth Cardoso","doi":"10.3366/ircl.2024.0550","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2024.0550","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":163936,"journal":{"name":"International Research in Children's Literature","volume":"57 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139823423","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Enseñando a sentir. Repertorios éticos en la ficción infantil [Teaching how to feel: ethical repertoires in fiction for children] by Macarena García González","authors":"Evelyn Arizpe","doi":"10.3366/ircl.2024.0551","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2024.0551","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":163936,"journal":{"name":"International Research in Children's Literature","volume":"7 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139873762","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Yo mediador(a). Mediación y formación de lectores [I, mediator. Mediation and readers' formation] by Felipe Munita","authors":"Soledad Véliz","doi":"10.3366/ircl.2024.0548","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2024.0548","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":163936,"journal":{"name":"International Research in Children's Literature","volume":"577 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139820743","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}