WONDRE Team Presented at the Children’s Literature Assembly Conference
On 20 February, four members of the WONDRE team showcased our ongoing research at the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)’s Children’s Literature Assembly 2026 Conference.
We had the pleasure of presenting together in a joint panel during their annual online conference, which was hosted this year by The University of Georgia. Under the conference theme, Care, Advocacy, and Children’s Literature: Research in Theory and Praxis, we shared different facets of our work, focusing on how children interact with and understand nonfiction.
Highlights from our panel included:
- Sarah Caré presented her preliminary thoughts on the often overlooked role that characters play within children’s nonfiction.
- Karolína Šimková offered innovative methodological approaches, discussing ways to analyze children’s books while adopting the viewpoints of children “by proxy.”
- Our PI, Anežka Kuzmičová, and Markéta Supa provided a sneak peek into their latest findings regarding children’s unique ways of imagining and conceptualizing the real world around them.
Find more information about the conference on its website.
To visually document our panel, Sarah Caré illustrated a comic capturing the key takeaways from each presentation.
