childrens' literature

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Juan and Ichel are recruited for a spy mission to find their birth parents, only to find that the reunion is not what they expected. As they navigate the gadgets, villains, and flying beds, they must also sort through their feelings of hurt and loss.

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Author's Comment: “As part of a larger collection of games from Mrs. Wobbles and the Tangerine House, Spy EYE offers the first tale to reflect on the emotions of foster care children coping with separation from their birth parents. Written with my forever family, this choice-based tale offers the opportunity to choose the character's Point of View in a middle grade tale in which the ultimate adventure confronts us with the most powerful challenges: our own emotions. Features poems by Margaret Rhee and Lyla Joy Hinchey and illustrations by Brian Gallagher.”

By Hannah Ackermans, 3 November, 2015
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Abstract (in English)

What kind of readers are we going to find with children’s electronic literature? Are“strong” and “weak readers” useful tags any longer? Are these digital reading skills and literary behaviors equal to those required with analogic texts? This paper presents an exploratory research on different children’s electronic literary reading profiles. We will analyze the affective relations of four 11–12 –year-old children with the digital works, their interpretative tendencies and their consideration of the literary properties that define this new literary paradigm.
For this purpose, we introduced five interactive tablets loaded with a selected corpus of literary apps for five months into the reading environment of an elementary classroom. Two pairs of students were selected based on their analogic literary reading profiles—two of them were considered strong readers and the other two “weak” ones—and interviewed in two different moments of the research process. Both interviews were recorded and transcribed for further analysis. The content structure of both interviews was designed based on a deep analysis of the particularities of this new reading context (Cassany, Prensky), as well as a close reading of the electronic works we selected for it, and the specific literary properties that defined them (Hayles, Ryan, Murray, etc.).
The emerging relations between student’s traditional reading skills and e-lit reading requeriments were analyzed in the light of contemporary children’s literary education studies (Chambers, Colomer, Tauveron, etc.), the above-mentioned theoretical works on electronic literature and ludologic taxonomies of gamers types. As a result of this multidisciplinary perspective, a qualitative and exploratory categorization of these four reader types is aims to help future researches of electronic literature and literary education.

(source: ELO 2015 conference catalog)

Short description

The Kid E-Lit exhibition showcases experimental electronic literature for children and teenagers alongside popular Nordic children’s and young adult’s book apps for tablets. The exhibition is organized in collaboration with Bergen Public Library and is funded by Nordic Cultural Point. The exhibition includes seven works selected from submissions to the ELO 2015 arts program as well as two works from each of the participating Nordic countries by Nordic researchers and librarians. The Kid E-Lit exhibition will be on display in the Bergen Public Library in August and September 2015, and the Kid E-Lit network will subsequently develop new versions of the exhibition to tour other Nordic libraries. A separate catalog in both English and Scandinavian language has been published and details the project more exensively.

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