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2018
Volume 97, Issue 4
  • ISSN: 0360-9170
  • E-ISSN: 1943-2402

Abstract

Informed by theories of reading as transactions and new literacies, the authors discuss the powerful possibilities of reconsidering reader response with contemporary nonfiction children’s literature.

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