Challenging Picturebooks and Inclusion

Åse Marie Ommundsen is Professor of Scandinavian Literature at Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway. She specialises in cognitively and emotionally complex picturebooks and their role in literacy development. An internationally recognised scholar and frequent keynote speaker, she has edited several volumes including Exploring Challenging Picturebooks in Education (Routledge, 2021).Daniel Feldman is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Bar-Ilan University, Israel, focusing on Holocaust and children’s literature. His work appears in major journals and is supported by grants from the Children’s Literature Association and the Israel Science Foundation.Björn Sundmark is Professor of English Literature at Malmö University, Sweden, and a leading scholar in children’s literature. A former editor of Bookbird, he serves on the jury for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award.

• Introduction: Theoretical Approaches to Inclusive Learning with Challenging Picturebooks Part I. Othering and Inclusion 2. Towards a Typology of Fat in Picturebooks: A Fat Reading of the Emergence of Body-Positive Representation 3. The Challenge of Inclusiveness: Exploring Death in Two Challenging Picturebooks 4. Collaborative Writing to Fight Stigmas: Coping with Leukemia via Nine Fearless Friends 5. Carriers of Challenging History: Contemporary Picturebooks about the Holodomor 6. The Tattooed Text: Challenging Orientalism in Barbara Hodgson’s The Tattooed Map Part II. Challenging Aesthetics 7. (Re)constructing Books: Materiality as a Narrative Component in Brazilian Pop-up, Accordion, and Poster Picturebooks 8. “Honey, I deleted the kids!” Inclusive Portuguese Picturebooks for Adults 9. Finding One’s Place in Time: Challenges and Kinships in Just nu har vi varandra 10. Inclusive Iconography in Shaun Tan’s The Arrival 11. Inclusive Design and the Children’s Museum: Picturebooks in Museum Education Part III. Accessing Affect 12. War Stories in the Classroom: Children Reading and Narrating the War in Ukraine 13. “And There Is No Right or Wrong”: Expanding a Wordless Picturebook into Classroom Assemblage 14. Intergenerational Alliances in a Co-authored Picturebook: Experiences, Challenges and Inclusive Aspects in Dear Diary 15. Bedtime Negotiations: Play and Participation in Bedtime for Bo 16. Rethinking Reading Spaces for Inclusion: Neuroarchitecture and the Booktruck Project