• Children’s Olfactory Picturebooks: Charting New Trends in Early Childhood Education 

      Kucirkova, Natalia; Tosun, Selim (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023-03)
      Converging global trends (digitization, globalization, datafication) have influenced all aspects of children’s literacies, including children’s picturebooks. The recent turn towards embodied, affective and sensory literacies, ...
    • Experiment protocol: Exploring the sense of smell in digital book reading 

      Løkken, Ingrid Veronika Midteide; Campbell, Janine Anne; Kucirkova, Natalia; Dale, Philip S (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      This paper outlines the background and design, and their rationale, for conducting a small-scale experiment to examine the effect of olfactory stimulation on children's reading outcomes. The theoretical underpinnings of ...
    • Without a Word: Bonding with Northern Nature in Lene Ask’s "Du" 

      Christensen, Sofija (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Lene Ask’s wordless picturebook Du (2016) renders the story of a day in the life of a little girl who has recently moved with her mother and baby sibling into a wooden house in the middle of a birch forest. The forest is ...