Reading for Pleasure: International Perspectives (Hardcover, 1)

Reading for Pleasure: Exploring the Concept, the Causes and Consequences??Part I: Understanding Readers??1. Reading Motivation: Embracing Multiple Perspectives? 2. Girls and Boys as Readers: Challenging Binary Beliefs? 3. Reading Identities and Recreational Reading??Part II: The Nature of Texts??4. Sensory Literacies to Foster Reading for Pleasure? 5. Fiction Books and Benefits to Wellbeing? 6. Connected Digital Reading among Adolescents??Part III: Pedagogies and Practices Conducive to Reading for Pleasure??7. Agency within Pleasure Reading? 8. Informal Book Talk? 9. Shared Reading Aloud??Part IV: Environments Conducive to Reading for Pleasure??10. Home, Parents and Siblings? 11. School Libraries: A Systematic Review? 12. Lifelong Reading Journeys? 13. Reading Communities: A Pluralist Perspective? Conclusion and Reflections for Research, Practice and Policy