Nina Christensen

Bogen handler om alliancer mellem børn og voksne, mellem litteratur og medier, mellem forskellige kunst- og udtryksformer og mellem forskellige fagligheder og professioner. Den henvender sig til studerende på de videregående uddannelser – herunder pædagogstuderende, lærerstuderende, studerende på diplom- og masteruddannelser samt fagfolk med interesse i børns litteratur og medier. I kapitlerne bliver du klogere på læsekultur, samskabelse, børns rettigheder, børneperspektiver, deltagerkultur, litteraturformidling og udvikling af fortællinger for børn og unge, hvor børn er medproducenter og får indflydelse. Formålet med bogen er ikke at give færdige definitioner og anvisninger, men at diskutere og nuancere de mange dilemmaer og udfordringer, der opstår, når man arbejder i det børnelitterære og -kulturelle felt. Bogen har bidrag af forfattere og indholdsskabere på tværs af medier, forskere, folke- og skolebibliotekarer, redaktører, undervisere og børn, unge og voksne.

This volume introduces an international readership to the role books have played in the lives and upbringing of young people in the Nordic countries from the 1750s until today. Charlotte Appel and Nina Christensen look beyond an overview of noteworthy texts and characters to address the region’s distinctive reading cultures and the interactions between literature and changing views of childhood, with a special focus on Denmark. The emergence of a dedicated market for children’s books in the Global North coincided with national school reforms, when Luther’s Small Catechism started to be supplemented—or replaced—by new books published for and about young readers, learners, and citizens. Children’s use of books and media is closely related to adults’ wishes to influence the present and future of a child through instruction, entertainment, or play. Chapters point to strong continuities as well as remarkable changes in the relationships between child readers and adult authors, artists, publishers, teachers, librarians, and parents through the centuries. Focusing on children as the central users and producers of texts, this interdisciplinary and transnational history shows how children’s exposure to and use of media impacted the Nordic welfare state, and vice versa. The ways adults facilitated—and in some cases prevented—access to picture books, schoolbooks, textbooks, comics, magazines, and other media to youth between infancy and adolescence reveals the complicated interplay between children’s internal wishes and grown-ups’ external expectations over time. As narratives for young audiences are continuously rewritten, republished, and adapted into new forms, this pithy synthesis brings forward new knowledge about the material and social history of books, literature, and childhood.

En bibliografi over Dorte Karrebæks egne bøger, hendes bogomslag samt bøger, hun har illustreret for andre. Gennemillustreret og forsynet med en selvbiografisk skitse af Karrebæk og et essay af Nina Christensen.