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SUMMARY:What is a crossover picturebook? - A case study of the adult reade
 r’s and the child reader’s engagement with the spatiotemporal construc
 tion in 'How to Live Forever' - Xiaofei Shi\, Faculty of Education
DTSTART:20160119T131000Z
DTEND:20160119T140000Z
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CONTACT:Dr Duncan Needham
DESCRIPTION:This presentation examines the crossover phenomenon (that is\,
  the transcending of age boundaries) particularly in the field of pictureb
 ooks. Although picturebooks are conventionally firmly connected with child
 ren\, an increasing number of picturebooks tend to blur the boundaries bet
 ween the child audience and the adult audience\, hence the term “crossov
 er picturebooks”. I will focus on the aesthetic qualities in a potential
 ly crossover picturebook through a case study of the adult reader’s and 
 the child reader’s engagement with the spatiotemporal construction in Co
 lin Thompson’s How to Live Forever. Rather than make the results general
 izable to a large population\, my aim is to explore a new\, fruitful way o
 f looking at crossover picturebooks. 
LOCATION:1 Newnham Terrace\, Darwin College
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