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From Migrants to Unicorn: Wordless Picturebooks and the Rise of Collective Creativity
Malmö University, Faculty of Education and Society (LS), Department of Culture, Languages and Media (KSM).ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8991-8405
2024 (English)Conference paper, Oral presentation only (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Wordless picturebooks, in recent years, have received more attention within the field of children’s literature. While the absence of textual narratives may pose challenges for the reading process, this also expands the space for readers to participate actively in constructing their own story in relation to the sequences of images. Within this expanded space, the readers are invited to playfully engage the visual narrative with their own imagination and personal history, resulting in very personal or intimate interpretation that may vary from one reader to another. At the same time, these numerous distinct interpretations may also interact with one another should the reading be conducted collectively.   Departing from that, this paper focuses on young readers’ potential of creative writing with the support of a wordless picturebook, Issa Watanabe’s Migrants. The study presented in this paper is conducted through four-week observation of a Year 2 class in southern Sweden, following their collective reading activity, creation of embodied collective creativity resulted from their readings, and the creation of narratives inspired by the book. All these process are approached through the concepts of playworld (Malilang & Walldén, 2024) and collective creativity. 

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2024.
Keywords [en]
wordless picturebook, child writers, playworld, collective creativity
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Humanities and the Arts Specific Literatures
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URN: urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-69528OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mau-69528DiVA, id: diva2:1877755
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The Child and The Book Conference. Rouen, France, 2-4 May 2024.
Available from: 2024-06-26 Created: 2024-06-26 Last updated: 2024-06-27Bibliographically approved

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