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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Where the Wild Things Are"”.
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Children's responses to Maurice Sendak's "Where the wild things are" : a study conducted at a Cape Town public library
One of the main hypotheses under scrutiny is that a child's responses to a children's book are likely to be influenced to a significant degree by his stage of cognitive development. A second major premise is that domains of human development and existence other than the cognitive (such as the …
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Imaginary Friends: Engaging the Unconscious Mind through Picture Books
<p>“Imaginary Friends” investigates the potential of the ‘imaginary friend’ as a narrative device in picture book storytelling. By combining the research of Marjorie Taylor on ‘imaginary companions’ and Lois Rostow Kuznets on ‘toy animals’ in literature, I seek to give form to the concept of the …
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unruly play in picture books
… based on a variety of interdisciplinary sources. The study examines a selection of children’s picture books that showcase a kind of play that defies normative narrative pacing, power dynamics, and narrative sequence. Future research is recommended to further interdisciplinary discourse on the …