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

  • Sue Alderson University of British Columbia

Περίληψη

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.

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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.
Τεύχος
Τόμ. 7 Αρ. 3 (2003)
Ενότητα
Jabberwocky
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