Students'
Pleasures
The
experience:
- parents reading the book (special time)
- pleasure of readers' funny voices
- sentimental attachment--book as a gift
- book (tie-in) reminiscent of associated toy
The
contents of the book:
- the game of finding hidden objects
- scratch and sniff, pop up--interactivity
- finding details in pictures
- enjoyment of colours
- pleasure of book's pictorial mood or atmosphere--bright
colours, etc.
- pleasure of rhyme
- pleasure of repetition
- pleasure of exciting action, suspense
- contradictions between words and pictures
- pleasure of humour, silliness
- pleasure of warm and fuzzy mood
- pleasure of familiarity (familiar objects depicted; described
things child liked to do herself/himself; same book frequently
reread, resistance to new ones)
- comfort of repeated themes and ideas
- enjoyment of variety
- challenge and satisfaction of learning about a difficult
subject or aspect of book
- enjoyment and appreciation of moral or theme, i.e., friendship
- pleasure of fantasizing, of entering world of the book--freeing
- pleasure of relating to characters, imagining one's future