Panel 10: Critical Literacy and Pedagogy

Panel 10 (Room 156) 3:15 – 4:15
Chair: Eric Meyers

Kathie Shoemaker, University of British Columbia
Visual and Verbal Cohesive Resources used to Construct Coherent Picturebook Texts for
Young Children.

Lindsay Bromley and Alexis Birner, University of British Columbia
Critical Literacy: Using Picturebooks to Read the World

Justin Unrau, University of British Columbia
Unreliable Instructions: Book-Failure and Critical Readership in Fantasy for Young
Readers

Panel 9: Technology, Fantasy, and Escape in Young People’s Literature

Panel 9 (Room 158) 2:00 – 3:00 P.M.
Chair: Rick Gooding

Leanne Hooper, University of Roehampton
Travel, Teens, and Tethering: Exploring Cell Phone Use in Childhood Journeys in
Ostrich Boys and Unhooking the Moon

Phil Gough, Currently Unaffiliated
Ghost in the Machine: Displacement and Embodiment in Mary E. Pearson’s The
Adoration of Jenna Fox and The Fox Inheritance

Alethia Shih, University of California, Los Angeles
Lands Beyond Home: The Distance Between Child Protagonist and Reader in The
Phantom Tollbooth