ERC Starting Grant · 2023
Ways of imagining in children's lives with information texts
What makes a piece of information personally engaging, and what does it even mean when it is experienced as such? Adopting a child-centred view on an emergent form of literate life, I will investigate what imaginative experiences fuel the current boom of children’s nonfiction picturebooks (CNPs). How do these books make children imagine, that is, shift their perception of the sensory world and oneself? What niche may they come to occupy in children’s day-to-day dealings with information? Contemporary society’s ‘strong reader’ is a fiction lover; a child who indulges in formal learning materials is a ‘prolific student.’ Most readers aged 9-11 are neither but many occasionally devour fun…
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