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Telling the World: Adults as Intermediaries in Reading Contemporary Children’s Literature

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to describe the contemporary function and role of an adult reader as a mediator in a young child’s contact with a book. The specificity of children’s literature in the con- text of literary communication and contemporary education was discussed. It shows what competen- cies are required from an adult to read picture books and stories about difficult situations in a child’s life together with a child. Selected literary examples illustrate that books for the youngest require joint dialogical reading, and the adult most often assumes the function of a translator of difficult words, the depicted world, as well as the cultural, social, or political context. The article is of a re- view nature, the clues collected in it indicate the need for conscious and competent mediation in con- temporary children’s reading by teachers, parents, and other adult participants of literary education.

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