{"id":6658,"date":"2018-12-20T07:42:46","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T14:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/?p=6658"},"modified":"2019-01-09T15:49:52","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T22:49:52","slug":"one-child-reading-extending-the-landscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/2018\/12\/20\/one-child-reading-extending-the-landscape\/","title":{"rendered":"“One Child Reading”: Extending the Landscape"},"content":{"rendered":"

Margaret Mackey writes:<\/p>\n

When University of Alberta Press published my book, One Child Reading: My Auto-Bibliography<\/em><\/a>, in 2016, it marked an important way station in a very long process. To explore the materials of my own childhood literacy, I spent years assembling books from my youth, along with magazines, Sunday-school leaflets, TV shows, radio programs, knitting patterns, and much more. My book investigates how these varied texts fed into a growing literacy. University of Alberta Press<\/a> provided a brilliant book design that let me display many of the texts that fed my literate childhood.<\/p>\n

But a book must leave a lot out. As I created the paper product, I promised myself I would find a way to showcase more multimodal and\/or more extended elements of the rich textual world I inhabited as a child. Some approaches fell short, limited by budget or technical potential or the transiency of student life (but I thank Logan Gilmour, Cody Steinke, and Andrew Theobald for helping me experiment). A serious illness delayed everything \u2013 but, in the end, Natasha Nunn, Karen Willsher, and I developed a website that expands the print parameters of the book. My thanks to them, and also to SSHRC whose support underpinned everything. You can sample the richness<\/a> of one literate life in St. John\u2019s, Newfoundland, in the 1950s. Enjoy!<\/p>\n