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Author(s) -
Serafini Frank,
Tompkins Felicia
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
the reading teacher
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.642
H-Index - 50
eISSN - 1936-2714
pISSN - 0034-0561
DOI - 10.1002/trtr.1324
Subject(s) - narrative , reading (process) , character (mathematics) , variety (cybernetics) , object (grammar) , picture books , curriculum , psychology , literature , visual arts , aesthetics , linguistics , pedagogy , art , computer science , philosophy , geometry , mathematics , artificial intelligence
This article explores a variety of contemporary picturebooks that offer the picturebook as an object of construction, as a character, and as portals to other narrative levels. These metafictive devices break the traditional boundaries between fictional and real worlds by involving the reader in the narrative, talking to them directly, and requiring them to actively participate in the construction of the narrative. In addition, we offer some ways these picturebooks may be integrated into the elementary reading curriculum.