Publications

Monographs

Books (authored)

Space, Place, and Children’s Reading Development:  Mapping the Connections.  Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. Paperback edition, 2024.

One Child Reading:  My Auto-Bibliography.  Edmonton, AB:  University of Alberta Press, 2016.  

Narrative Pleasures in Young Adult Novels, Films, and Video Games. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Mapping Recreational Literacies: Contemporary Adults at Play. New York: Peter Lang, 2007.

Literacies across Media: Playing the Text. London: RoutledgeFalmer, 2002. Revised edition, 2007. Final chapter reprinted in The RoutledgeFalmer Reader in Language and Literacy, ed. T. Grainger. London: RoutledgeFalmer, 2004, 236-252.

The Case of Peter Rabbit: Changing Conditions of Literature for Children. Children’s Literature and Culture, series ed. Jack Zipes. New York: Garland Publishing, 1998.

Books (edited)

Picturebooks and Literary Understanding: In Honour of Lawrence R. Sipe (editor). Amsterdam: Springer, 2012.

Major Themes in Media Literacies (editor). 4 vols. London: Routledge, 2008.

Beatrix Potter’s Peter Rabbit: A Children’s Classic at 100 (editor). Children’s Literature Association Centennial Studies 2. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2002.

Festival Plays (editor). Longman Imprint Series. Harlow: Longman, 1986.

Other Monographs

Adult Canadian Books for Strong Teenage Readers. With Ingrid Johnston, Joanne de Groot, Gail de Vos, Heather Ganshorn, Merle Harris, Elaine Jones, Jyoti Mangat, Jill Kedersha McClay, and James Nahachewsky. Edmonton: University of Alberta School of Library & Information Studies, 2006.

20^th Century Foundations for 21^st Century Literacy: Materials for Grade 10 English Language Arts in Edmonton Schools. With Anna Altmann, Ingrid Johnston, Betty-Anne Schlender, and Robert Cole. Edmonton: University of Alberta Faculty of Education, 2001.

Books for You: Recommendations, Reviews, Read-Ons. With Ingrid Johnston. Edmonton: Reidmore Books, 1998.

Picture Books and the Making of Readers: A New Trajectory. NCTE Concept Paper Series No. 7. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 1993.

Chapters

“Space, Place, and Readers:  Understanding Setting as ‘Placing-in-Process’.”  In Children’s Literature in Place:  Surveying the Landscapes of Children’s Culture.  Ed. Z. Flegar and J.M. Miskec.  New York:  Routledge, 2024, 181-191.

“Libraries.”  In The Routledge Companion to Children’s Literature and Culture.  Ed. C. Nelson, E. Wesseling, and A.M-Y. Wu.  New York:  Routledge, 2024, 491-503.

“Exploring Readerly Diversity.”  In Reading across the Disciplines.  Ed. K. Manarin.  Bloomington, IN:  Indiana University Press, 2022, 25-43.

“Challenging the Status Quo with Picturebook and App:  A Canadian Case Study.”  In Exploring Challenging Picturebooks in Education:  International Perspectives on Language and Literature Learning. Ed. Å.M. Ommundsen, G. Haaland, & B. Kümmerling-Meibauer.  London:  Routledge, 2021, 284-298.

“Creating Epitext and Intertext Perspectives with Mary Poppins Returns.”  In From Text to Epitext:  Expanding Students’ Comprehension, Engagement, and Media Literacy.  Ed. S. Witte, M. Gross, & D. Latham.  Santa Barbara, CA:  Libraries Unlimited, 2021, 105-117.

“Who Reads What, in Which Formats, and Why?” In Handbook of Reading Research, Volume V. Ed. E.B. Moje, P. Afflerbach, P. Enciso, & N.K. Lesaux. New York: Routledge, 2020, 99-115.

“The Role of Moving Images in Young Children’s Literary Practices.” In The Routledge Handbook of Digital Literacies in Early Childhood. Ed. O. Erstad, R. Flewitt, B. Kummerling-Meibauer, & I.S. P. Pereira. Routledge International Handbooks. London: Routledge, 2020, 295-307.

“Picturebooks and Media Studies.” In The Routledge Companion to Picturebooks. Ed. B. Kummerling-Meibauer. London: Routledge, 2018, 451-462.

“The Child’s Reading Body.” In The Embodied Child: Readings in Children’s Literature and Culture. Ed. R. Harde & L. Kokkola. New York: Routledge, 2018, 175-190.

“Urban Space and the Making of a Reader.” In Inhabiting Memory in Canadian Literature/Habiter la memoire dans la literature canadienne. Ed. B. Authers, M. Snauwaert, & D. Laforest. Edmonton, AB: University of Alberta Press, 2017, 37-53.

“Multimodality and Multiliteracies: Production and Reception.” In The Edinburgh Companion to Children’s Literature. Ed. C. Beauvais & M. Nikolajeva. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017, 217-231.

“Television as a New Medium.” In Literacy, Media, Technology: Past, Present and Future. Ed. B. Parry, C. Burnett, & G. Merchant. London: Bloomsbury, 2017, 25-40.

“Digital Picturebooks.”  In Children Reading Picturebooks:  Interpreting Visual Texts.  2^nd ed.   E. Arizpe & M. Styles.  London:  Routledge, 2016,169-179.

“Standing on a Rainbow:  Reading in Place, Position, and Time.”  In Place and Space:  Cultural Mapping and the Digital Sphere.  Ed. R. Panofsky & K. Kellett.  Edmonton, AB:  University of Alberta Press, 2015, 263-278.

“Roy and the Wimp:  The Nature of an Aesthetic of Unfinish.”  In Seriality and Texts for Young People:  The Compulsion to Repeat.  Eds. M. Reimer, N. Ali, D. England & M.D. Unrau.  Basingstoke, UK:  Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, 218-236.

“Narrative Interpretation: Tacit and Explicit, Analogue and Digital”. In Everyday Youth Literacies:  Critical Perspectives for New Times. Eds. K. Sanford, T. Rogers & M. Kendrick.  Singapore: Springer, 2014, 15-27.

“Film and Television.” With Muriel Robinson.  Handbook of Early Childhood Literacy, 2nd ed. Eds. J. Larson & J. Marsh. Los Angeles: Sage, 2013, 223-250.

“How Can Teachers Best Make Use of Students’ Out-of-School Exposure to Multiple Kinds of Texts?” In English in Middle and Secondary Classrooms: Creative and Critical Advice from Canada’s Teacher Educators. Eds. K. James, T.M. Dobson & C. Leggo. Toronto, ON: Pearson, 2013, 2013, 24-28.

“Twenty-first Century Basics.” In Tekst og Tegn: Lesing, Skriving of Multimodalitet I Skole og Samfunn. Eds. J. Smidt, E.S. Tonnessen & B. Aamotsbakken. Trondheim, Norway: Tapif Akademisk Folag, 2011, 35-50.

“Readers Remember: Text, Residue, and Periphery.” In Memory and Pedagogy. Eds. C. Mitchell, T. Strong-Wilson, K. Pithouse, & S. Allnutt. New York: Routledge, 2011, 81-97.

“Spinning Off: Toys, Television, Tie-Ins, and Technology.” In Handbook of Research in Children’s and Young Adult Literature. Eds. S.Wolf, K. Coats, P. Enciso & C. Jenkins. New York: Routledge, 2011, 495-507.

“Growing Up Multimodal: Young Men Talk Media.” In Mediated Boyhoods: Boys, Teens, and Tweens in Popular Media and Culture. Ed. A. Wannamaker. New York: Peter Lang, 2011, 239-257.

“Response and Production: The Media Lives of Contemporary Young People.” In Literature, Media and Multiliteracies in Adolescent Language Arts. Eds. M.C. Courtland & T. Gambell . Vancouver, BC: Pacific Educational Press, 2010, 255-275.

“Media Adaptations.” In The Routledge Companion to Children’s Literature. Ed. D. Rudd. London: Routledge, 2010, 112-124.

“Literature in a New Era: Porous, Hybrid, Slippery and Unfinished.” In Books, Media & the Internet. Ed. S.S. Peterson, D. Booth & C. Jupiter. Winnipeg: Portage & Main Press, 2009, 3-10.

“The Many Phases of Lyra.” In The Golden Compass and Philosophy: God Bites the Dust. Ed. R. Greene & R. Robison. Chicago, IL: Open Court, 2009, 73-85.

“Distributed Assessment in OurSpace: This Is Not a Rubric.” With Jill McClay.  In Assessing New Literacies: Perspectives from the Classroom. Eds. A. Burke & R.F. Hammett. New York, NY: Peter Lang. 113-132.

“Exciting yet Safe: The Appeal of Thick Play and Big Worlds.” In Play, Creativity and Digital Culture. Eds. J. Marsh, M. Robinson & R. Willett. New York: Routledge, 2009, 92-107.

“Postmodern Picture Books and the Material Conditions of Reading.” In Postmodern Picturebooks. Eds. L.R. Sipe and S. Pantaleo. New York: Routledge, 2008, 103-116.

“Home Page: Translating Scholarly Discourses for Young People.” With James Nahachewsky and Janice Banser. InHome Words:  Discourses of Children’s Literature in Canada.  Ed. M. Reimer. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2008, 195-223.

“Digital Games and the Narrative Gap.” In Digital Generations: Children, Young People, and New Media. Eds. D. Buckingham and R. Willett. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2006, 33-48.

“Inhabiting Anne’s World: The Performance of a Story Space.” In Children’s Literature in Performance and the Media. Eds. F. M. Collins and J. Ridgman. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2006, 61-82.

“Assets in the Classroom: Comfort and Competence with Media among Teachers Present and Future.” With Muriel Robinson. In Popular Literacies, Childhood, and Schooling. Eds. J. Marsh and E. Millard. London: Routledge, 2006, 200-220.

“Northern Lights and Northern Readers: Background Knowledge, Affect Linking, and Literary Understanding.” In His Dark Materials Illuminated: Critical Essays on Philip Pullman’s Trilogy. Ed. M. Lenz and C. Scott. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2005, 57-67.

“Children Reading and Interpreting Stories in Print, Film, and Computer Games.” In Literacy Moves On: Using Popular Culture, New Technologies and Critical Literacy in the Primary Classroom. Ed. J. Evans. London: David Fulton, 2004, 48-58; Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2005, 50-62.

“Film and Television.” With Muriel Robinson. In Handbook of Early Childhood Literacy. Eds. N. Hall, J. Larson, & J.A. Marsh. London: Paul Chapman/Sage, 2003, 126-141.

“Children’s Reading.” In The Encyclopedia of Recreation and Leisure in America. Ed. Gary Cross. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2004, 164-167.

“‘The Most Thinking Book’: Attention, Performance, and the Picture Book.” In Art, Narrative and Childhood. Ed. Morag Styles. Stoke on Trent, UK: Trentham Books, 2003, 101-113.

“An Asset Model of New Literacies: A Conceptual and Strategic Approach to Change.” In Digital Expressions: Media Literacy and English Language Arts. Eds. Barrie R.C. Barrell & Roberta F. Hammett. Calgary: Detselig, 2002, 199-217.

“The Mediation and Multiplication of Peter Rabbit.” In Beatrix Potter’s Peter Rabbit: A Children’s Classic at 100. Ed. Margaret Mackey. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2002, 173-188.

“Response to Literature in Media and Multimedia.” In Young Adolescents Meet Literature: Intersections for Learning. Eds. M.C. Courtland & T.J. Gambell.  Vancouver: Pacific Educational Press, 2000, 254-273.

“Developing Critical Responses to Stories in Many Media.” In Advocating Change: Contemporary Issues in Subject English. Eds. B. Barrell & R. Hammett. Toronto: Irwin, 2000, 177-187. Republished in Teaching English Today: Advocating Change in the Secondary Curriculum. Eds. B.R.C. Barrell & R.F. Hammett. New York: Teachers College Press, 2004, 106-116.

Articles in refereed journals

“Private Readerly Experiences of Presence and Why They Matter.”  Journal of Literacy Research 54(2), 2022, 137-157.

“Social Justice for Young Readers:  Advocating for Access, Choice and Time to Read.”  Literacy  56(2), May 2022, 97-105.

“The (Im)materialities of the Reading Space:  The Story of Holly and Ivy.”  Children’s Literature 49, 2021, 218-240.

“The Famous Five and the Autotopographical Two: Interpreting Blyton across Differences of Time, Space, and Race.” Children’s Literature in Education: An International Quarterly, 52(2), 2021, 271-289.

“Digital Literacies and Children’s Personalised Books: Locating the ‘Self’.” With N. Kucirkova. London Review of Education 18(2), 2020, 151-162. https://www.scienceopen.com/document/read?vid=70402fb2-1022-47ec-9de4-4a84e40d02ca

“Reading In and Out of Order: Living In and Around an Extended Fiction.” Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies, 2020, n.p. https://journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca/reading-and-out-order-living-and-around-extended-fiction

“Placing Readers: Diverse Routes to the Cognitive Challenge of Fictional World-Building.” Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 44(4), Winter 2019, 415-431.

“Visualization and the Vivid Reading Experience.” Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures 11(1), 2019, 38-58.

“Literacy Constants in a Context of Contemporary Change.” English in Education 53(2), 2019, 116-128.

“Supporting Learning Readers in Post-Confederation Newfoundland: A Collective and Distributed Enterprise.” Newfoundland and Labrador Studies 32(2), 2017, 284-314.

“Rules and Rhizomes: A Mary Poppins Sampler.” Papers: Explorations into Children’s Literature 24(1), 2016, 1-29.

“Literacy as Material Engagement: The Abstract, Tangible, and Mundane Ingredients of Childhood Reading.” Literacy 50(3), 2016, 158-172.

“The App, the Map, and the Street View:  Transforming Our Vision of Literacy.”  63rd Yearbook of the Literacy Research Association, 2014, 203-215.

“Finding the Next Book to Read in a Universe of Bestsellers, Blockbusters, and Spin-Offs.”  Academic Quarter (Akademisk Kvarter):  The Academic Journal for Research from the Humanities) 7, 2013, 216-236.

“The Emergent Reader’s Working Kit of Stereotypes.” Children’s Literature in Education: An International Quarterly 44(2), 2013, 216-236.

“To Automaticity and Beyond: Narrative Interpretation in Game and Novel.” Loading…Journal of the Canadian Game Studies Association, 6(9), 2012, 100-112.

“Where in the New Literary World Are We?” Dansk Biblioteksforskning, 8(1/2), February 2012, 7-17.

“The Constancy of the School ‘Canon’: A Survey of Texts Used in Grade 10 English Language Arts in 2006 and 1996.” With L. Vermeer, D. Storie & E. DeBlois. Language and Literacy: A Canadian E-Journal, 14(1), 2012, 26-58.

“The Embedded and Embodied Literacies of an Early Reader.” Children’s Literature in Education: An International Quarterly, 42(4), December 2011, 289-307.

“Reading from the Feet Up: The Local Work of Literacy.” Children’s Literature in Education: An International Quarterly , 41(4), December 2010, 323-339.

“Anne of Green Gables, Elijah of Buxton, and Margaret of Newfoundland.” Canadian Children’s Literature/Littérature canadienne pour la jeunesse 34(2), Fall 2008, 7-29.

“Stepping into the Subjunctive World of the Fiction in Game, Film, and Novel.” Loading…Journal of the Canadian Game Studies Association 1(3), 2008, 1-22.

“Pirates and Poachers: Fan Fiction and the Conventions of Reading and Writing.” With J.K. McClay. English in Education 42(2), Summer 2008, 131-147.

“Slippery Texts and Evolving Literacies.” E-Learning 4(3), 2007, 319-328.

“Adolescents Composing Fiction in Digital Game and Written Formats: Tacit, Explicit and Metacognitive Strategies.” With J.K. McClay, M. Carbonaro, D. Szafron and J. Schaeffer. E-Learning 4(3), 2007, 273-284.

“Narrative Attraction: One Story, One Reader and Two Decades of Ongoing Appeal.” With W. Maynes. Language and Literacy: A Canadian E-Journal 8(2), Spring 2006, http://www.langandlit.ualberta.ca/.

“Serial Monogamy: Extended Fictions and the Television Revolution.”  Children’s Literature in Education: An International Quarterly 37(2), June 2006, 149-161. 

“Canadian Young People and their Reading Worlds: Conditions of Literature in Contemporary Canada.”Canadian Children’s Literature/Littérature canadienne pour la jeunnesse 31(1), 2005, 78-98.

“Reading Outside the Book.” Papers: Explorations into Children’s Literature 14(2), 2004, 18-27.

“Stages of a Cyber-Writing Partnership.” With Muriel Robinson. English in Education 38(1), 64-79.

“The Condition of Children’s Literature Studies Today.” Special issue, “Children’s Literature: Where We are and Where are We Going?” Ed. Peter Hunt. CREArTA 4, Southern Winter 2003/ Southern Summer 2003-2004, 11-13.

“Did Elena Die?: Narrative Practices of the Online Community of Interpreters.” Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 28(1), 2003, 52-62.

“Risk, Safety, and Control in Young People’s Reading Experience.” School Libraries Worldwide 9(1), January 2003, 50-63.

“At Play on the Borders of the Diegetic: Story Boundaries and the Narrative Interpretation.” Journal of Literacy Research 35(1), 2003, 591-632.

“Researching New Forms of Literacy.” Part of panel, “New Directions in Research: Media and Online Literacy Studies,” with Margaret Hagood, Kevin Leander, Carmen Luke & Helen Nixon. Reading Research Quarterly38(3), July/August/September 2003, 386-413.

Online supplement for “Media and Online Literacy Studies,” with M. Hagood, K. Leander, C. Luke & H. Nixon. RRQ Online,http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1598/RRQ.38.3.4/abstract

“Television and the Teenage Literate: Discourses of Felicity.” College English 65(4), March 2003, 389-410.

“Extreme Literacies and Contemporary Readers.” English in Education 36(2), Summer 2002, 31-39.

“Talking Cats, Interactive Aardvarks, and the Development of Contemporary Readers.”CREArTA: Journal of the Centre for Research and Education in the Arts 2(1), Southern Winter 2001, 37-48.

“The Survival of Engaged Reading in the Internet Age: New Media, Old Media and the Book.”  Children’s Literature in Education 32(3), September 2001, 167-189.

“Literacy in the Zone of Corporate Development: The Cultural and Commercial World of Men in Black.” Simile: Studies in Media & Information Literacy Education 1(1), February 2001:http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/7452K31T84730M23

“Graphic Routes to Electronic Literacy: Polysemy and Picture Books.”  With Jill Kedersha McClay. Changing English  7(2), October 2000, 191-201.

“Multimedia Storytelling with Music and Pictures.” Language and Literacy: A Canadian Educational E-Journal 1(2), May 2000: https://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/langandlit/article/view/17631

“Arthur’s Agendas: An Aardvark Avatar Edutains.” Bookbird: A Journal of International Children’s Literature 38(1), 2000, 37-40.

Articles in non-refereed journals:

“The Case of the Flat Rectangles: Children’s Literature on Page and Screen (The Francelia Butler Lecture).” International Research in Children’s Literature, 4 (1), July 2011, 99-114.

“Books for the New Canada.” Canadian Children’s Literature/Littérature canadienne pour la jeunesse 33(2), Fall 2007, 170-186.

“Research as Play.” Synergy 03 (02), 2005, 12-16.

“Tacit Assumptions about Reading in a Changing World.” Orbit 36(1), 2005, 40-41.

“Reading and Not Reading: An Argument.” The Source 7(3), September to December 2002, 32, 34. Edmonton Public Library.

“Playing in the Phase Space: Contemporary Forms of Fictional Pleasure.” Signal: Approaches to Children’s Books 88, January 1999, 16-33.

“The Private Pleasures of Good Enough Reading.” Quill & Quire 64(11), November 1998, 46.