Presents a finished, theoretically grounded version of children’s knowing of photo storybooks—the first to concentration particularly on childrens. appropriate to modern teenagers from a wide selection of ethnic, racial, and socioeconomic backgrounds, this dynamic quantity encompasses a wealth of examples of children’s responses to literature and the way academics scaffold their interpretation of stories.

“The optimum advice i will be able to make is that I discovered so much. . . . you'll too!”
—From the Foreword by P. David Pearson, college of California, Berkeley

“The single most vital ebook in this subject due to the fact that Applebee’s The Child’s thought of Story . . . it's also a excitement to read.”
—Lee Galda, college of Minnesota

“Sipe presents a finished concept of literary knowing particular to modern younger children’s interactions with photo books. Storytime is grounded in well-documented examine, an in-depth wisdom of literary idea, and enlivened by way of insightful commentary.”
—Glenna Sloan, Professor Emerita, Queens university of the town college of latest York

“As a operating illustrator who spends such a lot days drawing or portray or dreaming approximately kid's picturebooks, I occasionally ask yourself, ‘Is there quite any element to all of this?’ during this ebook, Larry Sipe exhibits me truly, wittily, and punctiliously that there is.”
—Chris Raschka, Caldecott Medal–winning kid's ebook writer and illustrator

“Those people who paintings with little ones, picturebooks, and lecturers can have not more insightful consultant to their interactions than Larry Sipe himself.”
—Nancy L. Roser, collage of Texas, Austin