Words And Pictures: Lessons In Children's Literature and Literacies

Nina Mikkelsen received her Ph.D. in English from Florida State University and has completed postdoctoral work in childrens literature and literacy at Ohio State University with Charlotte Huck, at Columbia University Teachers College with Lucy Calkins, and at Columbia University School of Library Science with Brian Anderson and Roiger Sutton. She has taught at universities in Florida, North Carolina and Pennsylvania, in both English and Elementary Education Departments. Her research interests include cultural contexts of childrens literature, multicultural/cross-cultural/multi-ethnic literature, childrens story making processes, childrens responses to literature, literacy through literature as a classroom teaching approach, and portfolio assessment in the literature class. She has published articles and essays in Language Arts, The Reading Teacher, English Journal, Childrens Literature Association Quarterly, African American Review, Canadian Childrens Literature; and she is the author of Virginia Hamilton (Twayne, 1994) and Susan Cooper (Twayne, 1998).