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One Child Reading: My Auto-Bibliography | Margaret Mackey
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"The miracle of the preserved word, in whatever medium--print, audio text, video recording, digital exchange--means that it may transfer into new times and new places." --From the Introduction Margaret Mackey draws together memory, textual criticism, social analysis, and reading theory in an extraordinary act of self-study. In One Child Reading, she makes a singular contribution to our understanding of reading and literacy development. Seeking a deeper sense of what happens when we read, Mackey revisited the texts she read, viewed, listened to, and wrote as she became literate in the 1950s and 1960s in St. John's, Newfoundland. This tremendous sweep of reading included school texts, knitting patterns, musical scores, and games, as well as hundreds of books. The result is not a memoir, but rather a deftly theorized exploration of how a reader is constructed. One Child Reading is an essential book for librarians, classroom teachers, those involved in literacy development in both scholarly and practical ways, and all serious readers.
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MicrobeMom
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Well at least one of my kids will read at the pool! #raisingreadera

ashley_o13 @MicrobeMom is that dogman ? Brayden loves those 6y
MicrobeMom @ashley_o13 yes it is! He loves them and Captain Underpants! 6y
ashley_o13 @MicrobeMom yes, he loves captain underpants too! 6y
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"The deep-read is when you get gut-hooked & dragged overboard down & down through the maze of print & find, to your amazement, you can breathe down there after all & there's a whole other world. The kind of deep-read where it isn't just the plot or the characters that matter, but the words & the way they fit together & the meandering evanescent thoughts you think between the lines: fleetingly aware of your own mind at work." -Tim Wynne-Jones

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I'm slowly making my way through this fascinating "auto-bibliography" - it's making me think hard on the factors that shaped my own self as a reader. Margaret and I are members of a YA book club at the University of Alberta that's been going for over 25 years. (I joined in 2003.)
News story: https://www.google.ca/amp/edmontonjournal.com/entertainment/books/edmonton-autho...

rockpools So interesting! Does she do Litsy? I've thought more about what I missed/used to read/how my readjng's changed since being here - especially with the photo challenges which dig up all sorts from the dim-and-distant past! And it's given me 'permission' to re-read children's books... 8y
Lindy @RachelO I'm glad to hear you've given yourself permission to read kids' literature. So much good writing in that realm! Unfortunately, I couldn't convince any of the YA crew to join Litsy, except one who tried it and left. 8y
Suet624 I used to snicker at a friend of mine who said the only books worth reading were YA books. While I don't completely subscribe to her theory, I'm beginning to understand why she says that. 8y
Lindy @Suet624 Books that fall into reader age categories like YA and children's do tend to be unfairly denigrated. As in any category, there are great ones... And the not-so-great. 8y
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