Review of the Book: Childhoods and Readings: El Peneca in Chile and Hispanoamerica

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Abstract

“Childhoods and readings: El Peneca in Chile and Hispanoamerica” is a publication in book format of an investigation into popular magazine El Peneca and its readers. This research integrates Chilean and Hispano American history of reading´s studies specifically reading childhoods. Chapters include reading as an event and sociability´s space, contextual relevance of magazine's editorial line, materiality of print, illustration´s function, literature selection, reading´s pleasure development and child readers formation testimony outside school.

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periodical publications, history of reading, reading childhoods, readers community