Exploring Challenging Picturebooks in Education

Åse Marie Ommundsen is Professor of Norwegian Literature at the Faculty of Education and International Studies, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway, and Adjunct Professor at Nord University, Norway. She chairs the research project ‘Challenging Picturebooks in Education’.Gunnar Haaland is Associate Professor of Religion and Ethics at the Faculty of Education and International Studies, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway. He co-chairs the research project ‘Challenging Picturebooks in Education’.Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer is Professor in the German Department at the University of Tübingen, Germany. She recently edited The Routledge Companion to Picturebooks (Routledge, 2018).

"[The] case studies illuminate professional practice and there are plenty of applicable ideas for how to promote empathy and to use challenging picture books in ways that engage and hold potential for reframing how books and reading might be considered by non traditional readers. An engaging book that offers potential for developing professional practice." - Jake Hope, The School Librarian "On the wbole, Exploring Challenging Picture-books in Education offers an expansive, outward-looking evaluation of this exciting medium in varying contexts. Altbough many of us who study and teach children's literature have long celebrated the joy of reading picturebooks with our students, the triumph of this volume is its dedication to empirical research and to showing, in concrete terms, how picturebooks work to change readers' worldviews." - Lauren Rizzuto, Independent scholar, USA

• Introduction: Challenging Picturebooks in EducationÅse Marie Ommundsen, Gunnar Haaland, and Bettina Kümmerling-MeibauerPart I Theoretical Perspectives on Challenging Picturebooks in Education1 Cognitive Challenges of Challenging PicturebooksBettina Kümmerling-Meibauer and Jörg Meibauer2 Challenging Picturebooks and Literacy StudiesJennifer Farrar, Evelyn Arizpe, and Julie McAdamPart II Challenging Picturebooks in Early Childhood and Primary Education3 Interpreting and Mediating a Wordless Picturebook in Pre-primary Early English Language LearningSandie Mourão4 Picturebooks and Aesthetic Literacy in Early Childhood EducationMarnie Campagnaro5 Cognitively Challenging Picturebooks and the Pleasures of Reading: Explorative Learning from Picturebooks in the ClassroomÅse Marie Ommundsen6 Picturebooks that Challenge the Young English Language LearnerJanice Bland7 Gender Diversity in Picturebooks: Challenges of a Taboo Topic in Portuguese SchoolsEmanuel Madalena and Ana Margarida RamosPart IIIChallenging Picturebooks in Secondary and Tertiary Education8 Intercultural Learning through Peter Sís’ The Wall: Teenagers Reading a Challenging PicturebookSissil Lea Heggernes9 Challenging Picturebooks in the School Library: An Untapped Resource?Åse Kristine Tveit10 Exploring a Challenging Picturebook Gospel in the ClassroomGunnar Haaland, Eivind Karlsson, Anne Kristine Øgreid, and Åse Marie Ommundsen11 The Challenge of Creativity: Using Picturebook Sequencing for Creative WritingBjörn Sundmark and Cecilia Olsson JersPart IVGlobal Perspectives Pertaining to Challenging Picturebooks in Education12 Crossing Boundaries of Age, Culture, and Time with Challenging PicturebooksSandra L. Beckett13 Confronting the Trauma of the Child Evacuee: Picturebooks as Entrances to Visual LiteracyMia Österlund14 Challenging the Status Quo with Picturebook and App: A Canadian Case Study Margaret Mackey15 Publishing Challenging PicturebooksLaura LittleIndex