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Margaret Mackey grew up in Newfoundland, Canada. At the age of twenty-one, she moved to the United Kingdom, where she lived for the next eighteen years, teaching English, reading manuscripts for publishers, and acting as secondary editor ofThe Essex Review of Children's Literature. In 1989, she moved back to Canada and took a master's degree in library and information studies, followed by a Ph.D. in secondary education, both at the University of Alberta. Her doctoral dissertation,Imagining with Words: The Temporal Processes of Reading Fiction, involved a close study of ten adolescent readers and their encounters with a young adult novel. She now holds a postdoctoral research fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and is using it to explore how developments in different media, old and new, affect young people's reading and their understanding of fiction. She has written articles forChildren's Literature in Education and many other journals. She has also produced a booklet published by the National Council of Teachers of English in the United States, entitledPicture Books and the Making of Readers: A New Trajectory.
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Mackey, M. Communities of fictions: Story, format, andThomas the Tank Engine . Child Lit Educ 26, 39–51 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02360340
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