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Consumable Reading and Children's Literature: Food, taste and material interactionsIlgım Veryeri Alaca
[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition 12] 2022
► pp. v–viii
Ilgım Veryeri Alaca
[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition 12] 2022
► pp. v–viii
Table of contents
AcknowledgementsIX
Table of figuresXIII
IntroductionConsumable reading and children’s literature: Food, taste, and material interactions1
From interactions to words6
Hybrid literary objects: The children’s book and its kin8
Reading books and objects daily: Getting into the habit10
An inquiry into consumable reading12
Devouring, absorbing, flowing14
Food in children’s literature15
Captivated by texts at the crossroads: Overview of topics in this volume17
Chapter 1.The role of materials and materiality in picturebooks23
Tapping into multisensory reading25
Bonds between the book and the body29
Embodiment and its role in children’s literature30
A palimpsest: Material engagement during reading31
From well-known to new materials33
Conclusion: Entanglements with materials during reading35
Chapter 2.The potential of surfaces for early literacy37
Surface: Its role and potential for literacy37
Surface: As seen through interdisciplinary studies39
Surfacing meaning through contact41
Surfaces in children’s literature43
Extending surfaces for literacy engagement49
Chapter 3.Food-related reading51
Multisensory and symbolic: Consuming and reading about edibles53
Merging of food and words: Launching of a mother tongue56
Food-related reading on/from objects: Seals, molds, stencils, and more61
Food-related reading in children’s literature67
Broadening food-related reading74
Chapter 4.Literacy and synesthesia75
Reading with enriched perception and an additional sensation75
Entanglements of learning and synesthesia77
Synesthesia in children’s literature81
A sensory game changer: Children’s literature and synesthesia84
What synesthesia foreshadows86
Chapter 5.Packaging supporting literacy87
Opening packages87
Association of packages with picturebooks90
Packages as vessels of art and stories94
Extending literacy-based and aesthetic interactions with critical reading of the packages96
Transforming the premise of packages107
A percent for literacy109
Towards hybrid reading experiences: Relating packages and picturebooks111
Chapter 6.Consumer goods and packages in children’s literature113
Actual consumer goods in children’s literature114
Storied packages and boxes in children’s literature117
2D to 3D: The physical affordances of boxes in children’s literature123
The upcycled box as a keepsake in children’s literature129
Picturebooks in boxes132
Reading packages and boxes in picturebooks134
Chapter 7.Plates and pages: Exploring how tableware can facilitate emergent literacy137
Narratives on children’s tableware137
Enhancements through utensils for the mind and the body140
The plate and eating utensils: Premise and affordances142
Spoons156
Beyond tableware: The table as a story space158
Enriched meals with reading through utensils, tellings at the table163
Chapter 8.Children’s literature focusing on the plates and eating utensils165
Children’s literature where utensils are characters167
Children’s literature that fosters playful engagement with/through plates and utensils170
Children’s literature where plates reference a specific culture or geography175
Plates and utensils: From real to fictive space178
Chapter 9.Honing emergent literacy via food: Edible reading179
Precursors of edible reading182
Echoes of edible reading in children’s literature187
The idea of consuming books in recent picturebooks191
Innovations for edible readings195
Edible reading as an artful experience200
Chapter 10.Reading on fluid surfaces: From soups in narratives to interacting in a fluid narrative space203
Fluid surfaces to read and feed upon203
Interacting with fluidity and chance206
Soup in children’s literature208
Learning to read via edible fluids214
Combining self-assembly technology and reading215
Stirring the soup to read218
Conclusion219
From material to its transmission onto a surface223
Tapping into food, printing, and media225
Consumable reading and children’s interactions during reading226
Bibliography229
Index255
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