A picture-book trio: 'Lubna and Pebble', 'Tibble and Grandpa' and 'How the Library (Not the Prince) Saved Rapunzel'
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University of Exeter
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 6639
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- T - Other
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- Brief description of type
- Three picture books published by Frances Lincoln Children's Books (2014) and Oxford University Press (2019)
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- 2014
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Additional information
- This collection is the result of a single practice-research project to examine child development. Extensive international and national child-facing activities, conducted over a five-year period, enabled the author to lead the collaborative process behind the publication of all three titles with publishers and illustrators. The titles address challenging themes frequently avoided by leading publishers (i.e. gender politics, the refugee crisis and grief). Cultural and age-appropriate considerations were therefore crucial in the development of text and image. The primary aim of How the Library (Not the Prince) Saved Rapunzel is to encourage child literacy, promote library usage and challenge existing gender stereotypes. Lubna and Pebble, and Tibble and Grandpa, funded by an Arts Council project on ‘Vulnerable Children and the Power of Picture Books', were written to help children develop empathy skills and resilience. In all three cases, close collaboration with the illustrator was essential to ensure that the illustrations supported the message and tone of the text.
How the Library has been borrowed from UK libraries over 50,000 times (PLR, 2015-2020), selected for The Reading Agency’s Summer Reading Challenge (2017) and chosen as CBeebies Bedtime Story on World Book Day (read by Emily Watson, 2018). Lubna is used in refugee settings across the world to help children overcome trauma, was selected as one of Time Magazine’s ten Best Children’s Books (2019), won the Margaret Wise Brown Prize for Children’s Literature (2020) and was shortlisted for the UK Literary Association Awards (UKLA; 2020). Eighty thousand copies were given to children as part of the UAE’s literacy programme (Ministry of Education, 2020). Tibble is used as a global resource to help children cope with loss, was longlisted for the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal (2021) and the UKLA Awards (2021) and listed as an American Library Association’s Notable Children’s Book (2020).
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- Non-English
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