The purple cow: Creating poetry for pleasure and beyond
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publisher
AFCC Publications
Place of Publication
Geylang East, Singapore
Editor(s)
Garces-Bacsal, R. M.
School
School of Arts and Humanities
RAS ID
24556
Abstract
Paper presented at the Asian Festival of Children’s Content (AFCC) in Singapore in May 2015. In presenting literature to children there is an apparent balancing act between the competing needs of education and entertainment. This battle seems especially strong in the genre of children's poetry, where an awareness of poetry's ability to educate and of the need to develop literacy skills battles with the desire to allow children to gain pleasure from poetry within the classroom or outside of it.
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Murphy, S. (2015). The purple cow: Creating poetry for pleasure and beyond. In R. M. Garces-Bacsal (Ed.), Bridges, dragons & books: reflections on Asian children's literature (pp. 19-34). Geylang East, Singapore: AFCC Publications.