Margaret Mackey is Professor Emerita at the University of Alberta, Canada. She has authored five books (most recently One Child Reading: My Auto-Bibliography), edited four, and written over a hundred refereed articles and book chapters. She edited Children’s Literature in Education for eleven years.

I am frequently in awe of Mackey’s methodological techniques, and this study is her best to date. Her seemingly simple starting points – a reader, a story, a map – open up into rich multimodal evidence that captures the experience and impact of reading in its immediate context and in the long-term ... Mackey has produced an important piece of scholarship that responds admirably to many urgent questions in the field of children’s literature. She provides empirical evidence that supports many of the claims made by cognitive narratologists. At the same time, she sharpens arguments against generalising about how readers will respond to the affordances of a text. Above all, this work is a celebration of children and their books.

• 1. Introduction 2. The mapmakers and the maps3. Compass and keyGeographic Places 4. Home and Away: Stability, Disruption, and Agency5. Family Matters: Relationships and the Development of Reading Spaces6. The Home Range: Rehearsals and RepertoiresTextual Spaces7. Fundamental Scenes of the Reading Space: The Forest8. The Many Reading Spaces of Harry PotterPsychological Spaces9. Diversity Inside and Out10. Opening a Lifelong Reading Space Life Spaces and Reading Spaces11. Reading Minds in MotionReferencesBibliographyIndex

Margaret Mackey is Professor Emerita at the University of Alberta, Canada. She has authored five books (most recently One Child Reading: My Auto-Bibliography), edited four, and written over a hundred refereed articles and book chapters. She edited Children’s Literature in Education for eleven years.

I am frequently in awe of Mackey’s methodological techniques, and this study is her best to date. Her seemingly simple starting points – a reader, a story, a map – open up into rich multimodal evidence that captures the experience and impact of reading in its immediate context and in the long-term ... Mackey has produced an important piece of scholarship that responds admirably to many urgent questions in the field of children’s literature. She provides empirical evidence that supports many of the claims made by cognitive narratologists. At the same time, she sharpens arguments against generalising about how readers will respond to the affordances of a text. Above all, this work is a celebration of children and their books.

• 1. Introduction 2. The mapmakers and the maps3. Compass and keyGeographic Places 4. Home and Away: Stability, Disruption, and Agency5. Family Matters: Relationships and the Development of Reading Spaces6. The Home Range: Rehearsals and RepertoiresTextual Spaces7. Fundamental Scenes of the Reading Space: The Forest8. The Many Reading Spaces of Harry PotterPsychological Spaces9. Diversity Inside and Out10. Opening a Lifelong Reading Space Life Spaces and Reading Spaces11. Reading Minds in MotionReferencesBibliographyIndex

Margaret Mackey is Professor Emerita at the University of Alberta, Canada. She has authored five books (most recently One Child Reading: My Auto-Bibliography), edited four, and written over a hundred refereed articles and book chapters. She edited Children’s Literature in Education for eleven years.

I am frequently in awe of Mackey’s methodological techniques, and this study is her best to date. Her seemingly simple starting points – a reader, a story, a map – open up into rich multimodal evidence that captures the experience and impact of reading in its immediate context and in the long-term ... Mackey has produced an important piece of scholarship that responds admirably to many urgent questions in the field of children’s literature. She provides empirical evidence that supports many of the claims made by cognitive narratologists. At the same time, she sharpens arguments against generalising about how readers will respond to the affordances of a text. Above all, this work is a celebration of children and their books.

• 1. Introduction 2. The mapmakers and the maps3. Compass and keyGeographic Places 4. Home and Away: Stability, Disruption, and Agency5. Family Matters: Relationships and the Development of Reading Spaces6. The Home Range: Rehearsals and RepertoiresTextual Spaces7. Fundamental Scenes of the Reading Space: The Forest8. The Many Reading Spaces of Harry PotterPsychological Spaces9. Diversity Inside and Out10. Opening a Lifelong Reading Space Life Spaces and Reading Spaces11. Reading Minds in MotionReferencesBibliographyIndex