{"id":4534,"date":"2017-05-03T05:41:59","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T11:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/2018\/05\/21\/featured-reviews-of-one-child-reading\/"},"modified":"2018-10-29T09:13:24","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T15:13:24","slug":"featured-reviews-of-one-child-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/2017\/05\/03\/featured-reviews-of-one-child-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Reviews of “One Child Reading”"},"content":{"rendered":"

“The habit of reading is most frequently acquired in childhood: it is as \"\"<\/a>children\u00a0that we first acquire our love of\u00a0losing ourselves in other worlds and other lives, and our imaginative capacity to respond emotionally to the abstract symbols that make up a text-based narrative. .. [In Margaret Mackey’s] new volume, she turns inward to recall her own formative experiences as a child reader growing up in Newfoundland during the 1950s and ’60s.”\u00a0Quill & Quire<\/em><\/p>\n

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“One Child Reading, in which a professor becomes a geographer of her own\u00a0literacy, is hyper-local, yet there’s something about the way Margaret Mackey describes the forces that affected her early reading as a white, middle-class girl in 1950s and 60s St. John’s that will speak to readers across identity lines…. [T]his book marks an expert in her field bringing a career’s worth of knowledge to material she knows best. A thorough and lucid examination of the self, aided by prolific illustrations and great page design.\u00a0Jade Colbert, The Globe and Mail<\/em><\/p>\n

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“One Child Reading [is] the remarkable Margaret Mackey\u2019s exhaustive but far from exhausting study of the development of literacy.” Peter Hunt, Archive Child blog\u00a0[Full blog post at\u00a0http:\/\/bit.ly\/2aecVwx]<\/p>\n

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“I know that One Child Reading is meant to be more than just a walk down memory lane, and it is much more than that, most certainly. And yet, while I know that scholarship and literacy will be richer for the extensive and careful research represented here, I still want to thank Ms. Mackey for taking me on that walk. It was a pure pleasure. I will recommend this book highly, and not just for library collections, but for any child of the fifties who loves books and reading.” Tim Bazzett, author of the memoir, BOOKLOVER<\/p>\n

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The introduction at the Edmonton launch read like a review<\/a>, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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