Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-187) and index.
Contents
Children's ways of reading -- I: The child and the book -- Stepping into response: Alexander and the wind-up mouse -- Inside the world of The Snowman: different ways of seeing -- II: The reading transaction -- Alexander in the classroom: many voices, many literacies -- A deeper look at aesthetic literacy: Brooke and Louis the fish -- Louis in the classroom: the transactional literary conversation -- III: Children as research partners -- Fighting the dragon--and winning: The Hobbit -- Into the woods: the magical adventures of pretty Pearl.