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At the time of his sudden death in March 2011, well-known children´s literature scholar Lawrence Sipe was North American Editor-in-Chief of Children´s Literature in Education: An International Quarterly. A year later, this volume appeared in the form of a special commemorative issue to honour his contribution to the field. Reflecting the areas where Larry Sipe made his strongest contributions to our understanding of young people and their literature, the articles include a study of a single picturebook, a report on young people´s responses to a different picturebook, and two projects to incorporate actual responses from children into more broadly theoretical perspectives. An unfinished article by Larry Sipe himself is included, as are a number of commentaries by students from his classes at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Editor´s Note, Margaret Mackey .- Revisiting the Relationships between Text and Pictures, Lawrence R. Sipe .- Children´s Literature and Education: A Memoir of Dr. Lawrence Sipe, Rachel Skrlac Lo .- Navigating Worlds of "Trouble and Woe and Worse" in Children´s Literature: An Exploration into the Double Text of Tony Kushner and Maurice Sendak´s Brundibar, Kristin M. Larsen .- A Blissful Education, David Eric Low .- Exploring Grade 7 Students´ Responses to Shaun Tan´s The Red Tree , Sylvia J. Pantaleo .- Retelling and Remembering: In Memory of Dr. Lawrence Sipe, Danielle Gioia .- Towards a Culturally Situated Reader Response Theory, Wanda Brooks and Susan Browne .- A Tribute to Dr. Sipe´s Memory: Recounting his Final Lessons Teaching Young Adult Fiction, Spring 2011, Emily Sokol .- Reading Picture Books as Literature: Four-to-Six-Year-Old Children and the Development of Literary Competence, Coosje van der Pol .- Author Studies: An Effective Strategy for Engaging Pre-Service Teachers in the Study of Children´s Literature, Amy Kennedy

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