Journeying : young children’s responses to picture books of
traumatic and sensitive issues Tsai, Jennifer Pei-Miao (2010)
Journeying : young children’s responses to picture books of
traumatic and sensitive issues. PhD thesis, University of
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http://webcat.warwick.ac.uk/record=b2487489~S15 This study
investigates the response of a class of 35 seven and eight year
old children to ten picture books with difficult, traumatic
subject matter. Two of the stories deal with areas of emotional
loss, including the death of a grandfather; five stories take
the area of the Holocaust as their central theme, and three are
stories of earthquakes, with the consequent loss of life and
destruction. My research findings contribute to the study of
children’s literature in education by uniquely analysing and
giving insight into especially young children’s responses to
this particular genre of children’s literature. I