WONDRE: Ways of Imagining in Children’s Lives with Information Texts
We study how children engage with factual information and how their experiences relate to adults’ assumptions about young people, reading and nonfiction text design.
Our Team
Combining social science and humanities disciplines, our team develops novel research approaches to harness children’s perspectives on reading and everyday life.
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Terry Klaban presented at international symposium in Wrocław, Poland
Terry Klaban presented their research on book designs fuelling the vast export of Czech nonfiction at the 4th International Symposium and Workshops for Early Career Researchers in Children’s Literature.
Karolína Šimková
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Visiting researcher: Marc Kudlowski
We welcome Marc Kudlowski, visiting from the University of Cologne, Germany, as a temporary member of our team. Marc’s research focuses on media didactics and reading motivation.
Karolína Šimková
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Sarah Caré’s International Youth Library comic
Sarah Caré has created a comic portraying her time as an International Youth Library fellow. During her fellowship Sarah explored how mothers are depicted in middle-grade fiction.
Karolína Šimková