<b>Illuminating Texts</b>: Giving Children a Piece of the World Through Poetry

  • Sue Alderson University of British Columbia

Abstract

Alderson explores her poetry and argues that a world without poetry is only part of the world, but if you give your children poetry, you give them access to everything, you give them the universe.

Author Biography

Sue Alderson, University of British Columbia
David Beagley is Lecturer in Children's Literature and Literacy at La Trobe University's Bendigo campus, Victoria, Australia, where he teaches units in Genres, History, Australian and Post-colonial children's literature. He has previously taught in secondary schools, and has been a school and university librarian.
Issue
Vol. 7 No. 3 (2003)
Section
Jabberwocky
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