Consumable Reading and Children's Literature
Food, taste and material interactions
Consumable Reading and Children's Literature explores how multisensory experiences enhance early childhood literacy practices through material and sensory interactions. Embodied engagements that focus on the gustatory experience and, in particular, the sense of taste are investigated by studying food-related narratives. Children’s literature and different reading scenarios involving consumable objects, packages, tableware and utensils are scrutinized. Surfaces, the underlying mechanisms that support children’s literature, are considered in connection to emerging media and groundbreaking technologies. The interdisciplinary nature of this work draws on material and surface science, human-computer interaction, arts and food studies. As innovation and everyday materials meet, the potential of hybrid narratives mimicking synesthesia emerges with discussions on cross-modal learning. This monograph will inspire the interest of not only students, teachers, scholars of children’s literature and child development but also researchers and practitioners across various artistic and scientific disciplines.
[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 12] 2022. xvii, 260 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Acknowledgements | pp. ix–xi
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Table of figures | pp. xiii–xvii
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Introduction. Consumable reading and children’s literature: Food, taste, and material interactions | pp. 1–22
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Chapter 1. The role of materials and materiality in picturebooks | pp. 23–36
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Chapter 2. The potential of surfaces for early literacy | pp. 37–50
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Chapter 3. Food-related reading | pp. 51–74
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Chapter 4. Literacy and synesthesia | pp. 75–86
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Chapter 5. Packaging supporting literacy | pp. 87–112
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Chapter 6. Consumer goods and packages in children’s literature | pp. 113–136
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Chapter 7. Plates and pages: Exploring how tableware can facilitate emergent literacy | pp. 137–164
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Chapter 8. Children’s literature focusing on the plates and eating utensils | pp. 165–178
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Chapter 9. Honing emergent literacy via food: Edible reading | pp. 179–202
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Chapter 10. Reading on fluid surfaces: From soups in narratives to interacting in a fluid narrative space | pp. 203–218
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Conclusion | pp. 219–228
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Bibliography | pp. 229–254
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Index | pp. 255–260
“Dieser Beitrag zur kindlichen Aneignung von Literatur und Welt bietet eine spannende, sinnliche und empfehlenswerte Lektüre für alle pädagogisch und wissenschaftlich interessierte.”
Jutta Reusch, in JuLit (Arbeitskreis für Jugendliteratur) 2023
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Subjects
Literature & Literary Studies
Main BIC Subject
DSY: Children's literature studies: general
Main BISAC Subject
LIT009000: LITERARY CRITICISM / Children's & Young Adult Literature