Lifting the flaps on information: purpose and play in non-fiction texts
Smith, Vivienne (2003) Lifting the flaps on information: purpose and play in non-fiction texts. Literacy, 37 (3). pp. 116-122. ISSN 1741-4350 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.0034-0472.2003.0370300...)
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Books with flaps comprise a small, but recognisable sub-genre of non-fiction texts for children. Whilst they are popular with young readers, they sit unhappily within an educational discourse of non-fiction that is dominated by notions of information retrieval and genre theory. This article considers the purpose and function of flaps in a number of texts and proposes that the best of these books provide pertinent lessons for readers about the nature of 'information', and about the playful nature of reading itself.
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Item type: Article ID code: 3394 Dates: DateEventNovember 2003PublishedSubjects: Education > Education (General) Department: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Strathclyde Institute of Education > Education Depositing user: Strathprints Administrator Date deposited: 01 Jun 2007 Last modified: 08 Apr 2024 15:29 URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/3394