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Nicola Daly, Professor in Children's Literature, University of Waikato

MYSTERIOUS: Childrens picture books reflect changing attitudes to languages and can support revitalisation - What They Never Told You

Detail from the cover of Te Kuia me te Pūngāwerewere, written by Patricia Grace and illustrated by Robyn Kahukiwa. Author provided, CC BY-SA

We know from a wealth of research that children’s picture books support language learning.

During a fellowship at the International Youth Library in Munich, I had an opportunity to examine how languages are represented in multilingual picture books and how their use can reflect their changing status in a society.

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