Dr. Margaret Mackey Takes Childhood Reading Project "Home"

Dr. Margaret Mackey made a presentation at the Newfoundland and Labrador Book History Symposium on May 8. Dr. Mackey reported on "One Child's Book History in St. John's in the 1950s," a summary version of her extensive study of the materials that made her a literate child, growing up in St. John's, NL, in the 1950s and 1960s.

10 May 2016

Dr. Margaret Mackey made a presentation at the Newfoundland and Labrador Book History Symposium on May 8. Dr. Mackey reported on "One Child's Book History in St. John's in the 1950s," a summary version of her extensive study of the materials that made her a literate child, growing up in St. John's, NL, in the 1950s and 1960s. The full report of this project appears in One Child Reading: My Auto-Bibliography, published by the University of Alberta Press in April 2016 (see http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/titles/803-9781772120394-one-child-reading). The Edmonton Journal reported on this project on May 6 (see http://edmontonjournal.com/entertainment/books/edmonton-author-re-reads-her-favourite-childhood-books-all-of-them).