{"title":"Los Babies are Bilingüe: Intersections of Race, Ethnicity, Language, and Age in Baby Books","authors":"Reka C. Barton, Verónica González","doi":"10.1007/s10583-023-09547-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10583-023-09547-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45382,"journal":{"name":"CHILDRENS LITERATURE IN EDUCATION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136229528","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘A Pattern of Clothes:’ Fairy Tale, Originality, and Dress in Dodie Smith’s I Capture the Castle","authors":"Kathryn Strong Hansen","doi":"10.1007/s10583-023-09540-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10583-023-09540-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45382,"journal":{"name":"CHILDRENS LITERATURE IN EDUCATION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136228630","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Poetics of Maternal Picturebooks for Babies: An Attempt at Defining an Ambivalent Genre","authors":"Juan Senís, Montse Pena Presas","doi":"10.1007/s10583-023-09536-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10583-023-09536-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45382,"journal":{"name":"CHILDRENS LITERATURE IN EDUCATION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136228781","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Survival Kits for Babies: Baby Box Books and Infant Temporality in Finnish Maternity Packages","authors":"Maria Lassén-Seger, Mia Österlund","doi":"10.1007/s10583-023-09543-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10583-023-09543-x","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Maternity packages, introduced in 1938 by the Finnish state to counteract declining birth rates and infant mortality, have reached all newborns regardless of income or social status from 1949 onwards. The box is a unique phenomenon internationally and a significant part of the Finnish history of childhood as its contents mirror contemporaneous views on childhood. In 1982, a baby book was added to the box. Research has, however, kept focusing on the social aspects of the box, ignoring the baby books. In this article, we make up for the lack of scholarly interest in the baby box books by studying how they depict temporal normativity. Drawing on queer temporal studies (Halberstam 2005; Freeman 2010), we introduce the terms infant temporality/ baby time to discuss the interplay of aesthetics and normative timelines. We claim that these books use bodily tempo, rhythm, movement, as well as sensory and tactile aspects to depict non-normative timelines, understood as infant temporality. Drawing on Hartmut Rosa (2019), we argue that the interplay between adult caregiver and infant encouraged by these books aims to achieve resonance , understood as presence and connection. In contrast to adult acceleration , we claim that these books, as part of their unique hybrid aesthetics, present infant temporality as deceleration . Reaching a vast number of Finnish families yearly, the baby box books provide a strong temporal discourse while promoting a resonant reproductive time. However, we find that while the books studied deviate from adult temporal normativity, infant temporality is still included in a normative reproductive timeline, sanctioned by the Finnish state. Hereby, the baby box books expose temporal complexities of our era.","PeriodicalId":45382,"journal":{"name":"CHILDRENS LITERATURE IN EDUCATION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136228780","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Haptic Prosody and the Aesthetics of Baby Books","authors":"Carl F. Miller, R. Eric Tippin","doi":"10.1007/s10583-023-09560-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10583-023-09560-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45382,"journal":{"name":"CHILDRENS LITERATURE IN EDUCATION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136229524","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On Photos and Drawings in Baby Books. A Comparison Based on Dining Scenes","authors":"Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer, Jörg Meibauer","doi":"10.1007/s10583-023-09542-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10583-023-09542-y","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article offers a comparative analysis of the aesthetic functions of photos vs. drawings in baby books. Baby books are understood as books for children between 0 and 3 years of age. Since the development of food intake and eating behavior is very important at this age, appropriate pictures of dining scenes can be found in many baby books. This article compares picturebooks for babies that show dining scenes, with two photo books, Trine kan… (1955) and Se hvad vi kan! (1964), and two baby books with drawings, The Picturebook for BABY (1950) and I See (1985). The null hypothesis is that photos tend more towards documentary, authentic, and objective representation, while drawings emphasize a stereotypical, expressive, and subjective perspective. Important intermittent factors are the concept of portraiture, expressed cuteness, and the position on a scale from avant-garde to kitsch. The analysis of the images and the accompanying texts (including the peritexts) shows that the representation of babies is subject to historical changes, which is related to different constructions of what it means to be a baby. In particular, the orientation towards parental or pedagogical ideals influences the respective representations.","PeriodicalId":45382,"journal":{"name":"CHILDRENS LITERATURE IN EDUCATION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136228629","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Understanding the Design Values of Baby Books: Materiality, Co-presence, and Remediation","authors":"Jacqueline Reid Walsh, Rebecca Rouse","doi":"10.1007/s10583-023-09546-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10583-023-09546-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45382,"journal":{"name":"CHILDRENS LITERATURE IN EDUCATION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136228631","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Childness and Musicality in Babies’ Songbooks","authors":"Ying Zou, XuDong Tan","doi":"10.1007/s10583-023-09555-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10583-023-09555-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45382,"journal":{"name":"CHILDRENS LITERATURE IN EDUCATION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136229367","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A is for Aesthetics: The Multisensory Beauty of Baby Books","authors":"Clémentine Beauvais","doi":"10.1007/s10583-023-09550-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10583-023-09550-y","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This introduction presents the special issue on baby books, and summarises the various articles.","PeriodicalId":45382,"journal":{"name":"CHILDRENS LITERATURE IN EDUCATION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136228776","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rythme et musicalité des albums pour bébés","authors":"Cécile Boulaire","doi":"10.1007/s10583-023-09564-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10583-023-09564-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45382,"journal":{"name":"CHILDRENS LITERATURE IN EDUCATION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136229392","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}