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Author Mikkelsen, Nina.

Title Powerful magic : learning form children's responses to fantasy literature / Nina Mikkelsen ; foreword by Laurence Yep.

Publication Info. New York : Teachers College Press, [2005]
©2005

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  028.55 M636P    Check Shelf
Description x, 193 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Series Language and literacy series
Language and literacy series (New York, N.Y.)
Bibliography 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.
Subject Children -- Books and reading -- Psychological aspects.
Children's literature -- Psychological aspects.
Fantasy literature -- Psychological aspects.
Literacy -- Philosophy.
ISBN 0807745952 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
0807745960 (acid-free paper)
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