Children's Literacy Practices and Preferences

<p>Over the past few decades there have been intense debates in education surrounding children’s literacy achievement and ways to promote reading particularly that of boys. The <i>Harry Potter</i> book series has been received enthusiastically by very many children boys and girls alike but has also been constructed in popular and media discourses as a children’s particularly a boys’ literacy saviour. <i>Children’s Literacy Practices and Preferences: Harry Potter and Beyond</i> provides empirical evidence of young people’s reported literacy practices and views on reading and of how they see how the <i>Harry Potter</i> series as having impacted their own literacy. The volume explores and debunks some of the myths surrounding <i>Harry Potter</i> and literacy and contextualizes these within children’s wider reading.</p>