{"title":"Adolescent Self-Harm Behavior And Choke By Diana López","authors":"A. Cummins, P. Garza","doi":"10.1080/13614541.2013.813332","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13614541.2013.813332","url":null,"abstract":"Participation in the choking game, termed self-asphyxial risk-taking behavior (SAB), threatens the well-being of adolescents. The realistic novel Choke (2012) by Diana López addresses this urgent topic along with themes of friendship, self-knowledge, and purpose. San Antonio, Texas eighth grader Windy Soto succumbs to Nina Díaz's peer pressure to participate in this risk activity. López's novel fits the genre of the new young adult problem novel that presents a social issue within a realistic work of literary fiction. Choke links with other problem novels portraying adolescent self-harm behavior that could be used in programs for prevention.","PeriodicalId":364812,"journal":{"name":"New Review of Children's Literature and Librarianship","volume":"107 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123356178","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":"Prejudice and Stereotypes Revealed Through Reader Responses in Pre-School Students","authors":"Raquel C. Cuperman","doi":"10.1080/13614541.2013.813338","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13614541.2013.813338","url":null,"abstract":"This article presents the findings of a study investigating reader responses in pre-school students in Colombia. The study took as its focus the idea that school classrooms often inhibit students from expressing their inner-self. Afraid of their teacher's and peers’ critical gaze, students may hold back many of their opinions.","PeriodicalId":364812,"journal":{"name":"New Review of Children's Literature and Librarianship","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116624740","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":"The Children Sat and Listened: Storytelling on Children's Mobile Libraries","authors":"Marianne Bamkin, A. Goulding, S. Maynard","doi":"10.1080/13614541.2013.755023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13614541.2013.755023","url":null,"abstract":"Storytelling sessions regularly occur in United Kingdom libraries; however, the storytelling techniques of library staff vary. In order to pinpoint an optimum technique and discover the benefit of storytimes, observations of storytelling sessions on children's mobile libraries were analyzed. The use of participant observation, ethnography, and grounded theory revealed that children's cognizance increased through focused attention and that hearing different storytellers broadens children's learning. Although the techniques of individual storytellers differed, children concentrated well and it was concluded that the combination of deep concentration and variety of experience enriches children's knowledge of language and subsequently their literacy.","PeriodicalId":364812,"journal":{"name":"New Review of Children's Literature and Librarianship","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131930463","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":"Making the Connection: Transmediation and Children's Literature in Library Settings","authors":"Karla M. Schmit","doi":"10.1080/13614541.2013.752667","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13614541.2013.752667","url":null,"abstract":"Librarians in school and academic libraries provide students of all ages with opportunities to engage in meaningful learning in response to children's literature. This article advocates for librarians to have an understanding of semiotics, multiple sign systems and their relationship to intertextuality and meaning making through transmediation, and to use that knowledge in planning learning activities in library settings. Library learning activities with children's literature are often narrowly focused on just one sign system—language. Many times sign systems other than language are used only for presentations at the end of discussions about stories. Librarians can capitalize on the many ways of knowing and reach more than just a fraction of a learner's capacity by allowing them to flexibly use more than one sign system when responding to children's literature. A number of researchers have suggested ways that other sign systems (e.g. art, music, dance, technology, etc.) through transmediation can provide deeper understanding during a literary experience. Strategies for incorporating transmediation in children's literature learning are explored and encouraged for use in library settings. When learners are engaged in transmediation activities involving multiple texts, they are empowered to think critically and negotiate meanings about the world in which they live. They achieve the ability to be reflective and creative in their experience of literature and life.","PeriodicalId":364812,"journal":{"name":"New Review of Children's Literature and Librarianship","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130200893","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":"Can Images Transform a Poem? When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer: An Example of a Poetry Picturebook","authors":"M. R. Neira-Piñeiro","doi":"10.1080/13614541.2013.751290","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13614541.2013.751290","url":null,"abstract":"This article analyzes When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer, which we consider to be an example of a poetry picturebook, a kind of text belonging to the field of children's literature which is characterized by the interaction between a poetic text and a sequence of illustrations. In this case, visual narrative adds a story to the poem and incorporates some visual poetic structures. Text and pictures become a unit, whose sense is created through the complex interaction of visual and verbal. The result is a new work incorporating a personal interpretation of the original Walt Whitman poem, adapted for child readers.","PeriodicalId":364812,"journal":{"name":"New Review of Children's Literature and Librarianship","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124678193","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":"Translating National History for Children: A Case Study of a Classic","authors":"B. Epstein","doi":"10.1080/13614541.2013.751288","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13614541.2013.751288","url":null,"abstract":"Mark Twain's classic novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is arguably about the history of the United States in terms of slavery and race relations. How, then, can this be translated to another language and culture, especially one with a very different background with regard to minorities? And, in particular, how can this be translated for children, who have less knowledge about history and slavery than adult readers? In this article, I analyze how Twain's novel has been translated into Swedish. I study 15 translations. Surprisingly, I find that instead of retaining Twain's even-handed portrayal of the two races and his acceptance of a wide variety of types of Americans, Swedish translators tend to emphasize the foreignness, otherness, and lack of education of the black characters. In other words, although the American setting is kept, the translators nevertheless give Swedish readers a very different understanding of the United States and slavery than that which Twain strove to give his American readers. This may reflect the differences in immigration and cultural makeup in Sweden versus in America, but it radically changes the book as well as child readers’ understanding of what makes a nation.","PeriodicalId":364812,"journal":{"name":"New Review of Children's Literature and Librarianship","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129533542","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":"EOV editorial board","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/13614541.2012.723948","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13614541.2012.723948","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":364812,"journal":{"name":"New Review of Children's Literature and Librarianship","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132975363","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":"Reading Habits and Library Use Among Young Adults","authors":"Åse Kristine Tveit","doi":"10.1080/13614541.2012.714341","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13614541.2012.714341","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigates the reading and library habits among teenagers in Oslo, Norway using qualitative interviews and a survey. Interviews with four girls demonstrate individual variation in their literary tastes and in the roles of reading they take on. The survey gives an overview of teenagers' library use and their literature preferences, and detects that girls and boys differ in preferences of reading media. Differences in literary tastes are also shown as gender-based. The survey indicates different patterns in reading frequency and reading materials in the sense that students from the schools with the closest connection to the public library read more, as well as in a broader range of reading materials than students from schools with no such connection.","PeriodicalId":364812,"journal":{"name":"New Review of Children's Literature and Librarianship","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133997911","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":"Missing Faces, Beautiful Places: The Lack of Diversity in South Carolina Picture Book Award Nominees","authors":"R. Kurz","doi":"10.1080/13614541.2012.716695","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13614541.2012.716695","url":null,"abstract":"Many South Carolina librarians purchase and display the books nominated annually for the South Carolina Picture Book Award. The purpose of this study was to examine the nominee lists for racial and ethnic representation and portrayal using Critical Race Theory and Rudine Sims Bishop's categories for African American children's literature. The results indicated that the lists fail to account for the diversity of South Carolina and the United States. Protagonists of color are rare, as are authors and illustrators of color. Overall, the lists offer children few examples of people of color as important members of contemporary American society.","PeriodicalId":364812,"journal":{"name":"New Review of Children's Literature and Librarianship","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126178141","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":"Poetry on the Subway: An Interview with Children's Poet John Rice","authors":"D. Xerri","doi":"10.1080/13614541.2012.716691","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13614541.2012.716691","url":null,"abstract":"This article discusses the relationship between poetry and liminal places and revolves around an interview with the British poet John Rice. Rice is a children's poet and for a time he occupied the post of Glasgow's subway poet-in-residence. The interview explores the educational implications of such a post and examines Rice's views on children's creative writing. This article argues that the writing of poetry is an activity that should be encouraged more enthusiastically in primary and secondary schools given that it offers a number of highly significant benefits for young people.","PeriodicalId":364812,"journal":{"name":"New Review of Children's Literature and Librarianship","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133307535","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}