eprintid: 1536704 rev_number: 37 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/01/53/67/04 datestamp: 2017-01-21 23:59:43 lastmod: 2021-09-26 22:58:03 status_changed: 2017-02-03 15:30:55 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Kucirkova, N creators_name: Littleton, K creators_name: Cremin, T title: Young children's reading for pleasure with digital books: six key facets of engagement ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B16 divisions: B14 divisions: J77 keywords: Reading for pleasure, e-books, child’s engagement, digital books note: Copyright © 2015 University of Cambridge, Faculty of Education. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in the Cambridge Journal of Education on 4 January 2016; available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/0305764X.2015.1118441 abstract: This paper offers a new characterisation of young children’s (2–8 years) reading for pleasure (RfP) with digital books. This characterisation is rooted in a re-contextualisation of Anna Craft’s conceptualisation of twenty-first century childhoods in Creativity and education futures (Stoke on Trent, Trentham, 2011) and a review of the literature concerning young children’s RfP with digital books. The paper develops Craft’s (2011) work by considering the ways in which digital books can resource the ‘4Ps of digital childhood’ in reading for pleasure. Six facets of reader engagement, nested within Craft’s (2011) 4Ps, are presented: affective, creative, interactive, shared, sustained and personalised reading engagements. It is argued that this characterisation of young children’s reading engagements can enrich our understanding of the affordances of digital books in relation to RfP in the twenty-first century. The paper thus offers an important new contribution, going beyond established work in the field, which typically explores digital books in relation to children’s learning, product design or developmental outcomes. date: 2017 date_type: published official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0305764X.2015.1118441 oa_status: green full_text_type: other language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green article_type_text: Article verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1202847 doi: 10.1080/0305764X.2015.1118441 lyricists_name: Kucirkova, Natalia lyricists_id: NKUCI20 full_text_status: public publication: Cambridge Journal of Education volume: 47 number: 1 pagerange: 67-84 issn: 1469-3577 citation: Kucirkova, N; Littleton, K; Cremin, T; (2017) Young children's reading for pleasure with digital books: six key facets of engagement. Cambridge Journal of Education , 47 (1) pp. 67-84. 10.1080/0305764X.2015.1118441 <https://doi.org/10.1080/0305764X.2015.1118441>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1536704/1/Kucirkova_Young%20childrens%20reading_AAM.pdf