Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Why readers read what writers write

  • Published:
Children's Literature in Education Aims and scope Submit manuscript

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Notes

  1. “Wild Things,” December 1967, 359–360.

  2. See, e.g., Frank Whitehead, A. C. Capey, Wendy Maddren, and A. Wellings,Children and Their Books: London: MacMillan, Schools Council Publication, 1977.

    Google Scholar 

  3. “Stories from a Victorian nursery,”Signal, September 1992,69, 189.

  4. E.g., “Symbolic outlining: The academic study of children's literature,”Signal, 1987,53, 97–115; “Keeping company with Wayne Booth—and others,Signal, 1990,62, 104–113; “Transitions: The notion of change in writing for children,”Signal, 1992,67, 13–33.

  5. “Predicting children's choices in literature: A developmental approach,”Children's Literature in Education, 1978,9(3), 136–142.

  6. Child and Tale: The Origins of Interest. Urbana, Il: National Council of Teachers of English, 1977.

  7. Magical Thought in Creative Writing.: Stroud, Glos., Thimble Press, 1983.

  8. See, e.g., M. Crago and H. Crago,Prelude to Literacy. Carbondale, Il: Southern Illinois Univ. Press, 1993. D. Butler,Asshla and the Books. London: Hoddes and Stroughton, 1979. V. Lowe, “Snufkin, Sniff and Little My”,Papers 1990, 2:2, 87–96.

    Google Scholar 

  9. See “Anna abridges Masha,”Language Arts, March 1989,66(3), 252–266.

  10. See my unpublished article, “Prior expectations ofGreat Expectations,”

  11. “Tarzan the Incomparable,” trans. Patricia Crampton,Signal, 1991,64, 20–24. Further relevant biographical details can be found in Nancy Huse, “Tove Jansson and her readers: No one excluded,”Children's Literature, 1991,19, 149–161.

  12. D. W. Harding, “Psychological processes in the reading of fiction, inAesthetics in the Modern World, Harold Osborne, ed. London: Thames & Hudson, 1968.

    Google Scholar 

  13. See Gregory Bateson, “A theory of play and fantasy” (1954) inSteps to an Ecology of Mind, pp. 150–166, New York: Ballantine Books, 1972.

    Google Scholar 

  14. Sanjay Sircar, personal communication, 1991.

  15. Virginia Lowe, “Snufkin, Sniff and Little My: The ‘reality’ of fictional characters for the young child,”Papers, 1991,2(2), 87–96.

    Google Scholar 

  16. Lowe, personal correspondence, 1991.

  17. Lost in a Book: The Psychology of Reading for Pleasure. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988.

Download references

Authors
  1. Hugh Crago
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Additional information

Hugh Crago is co-author (with Maureen Crago) ofPrelude to Literacy (1983). His new book,A Family in Time, will be published in 1994 by McPhee-Gribble/Penguin (Melbourne). “Why Readers Read What Writers Write” is an edited version of Chapter 1 of a forthcoming book entitledStories Make Us Make Stories.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Crago, H. Why readers read what writers write. Child Lit Educ 24, 277–289 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01130574

Download citation

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01130574

Keywords

Search

Navigation