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A Bicultural Study of Identification: Readers' Responses to the Ironic Treatment of a National Hero.
Peer reviewedBunbury, Rhonda; Tabbert, Reinbert – Children's Literature in Education, 1989
Explores how child readers in Australia and Germany responded to Randolph Stow's "Midnite." Reports on responses from taped interviews conducted in each country, examining both child and adult responses to the ironic humor of the work. (MG)
Descriptors: Adults, Childrens Literature, Cross Cultural Studies, Elementary Education
Tobin, Barbara – 1990
In the 1970s and 1980s the white Australian author Patricia Wrightson's cross-cultural fantasies concerning the conflict of White characters with Aboriginal folk spirits struck a chord with many adolescent and adult readers who judged these novels to be outstandingly successful. A classroom-based study examined the responses of a class of seventh…
Descriptors: Adults, Case Studies, Childrens Literature, Fantasy
