{"id":917,"date":"2014-03-17T17:57:14","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T22:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=917"},"modified":"2014-04-07T12:54:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T17:54:00","slug":"portrayals-of-animals-in-childrens-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/portrayals-of-animals-in-childrens-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Portrayals of animals in children\u2019s books<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_918\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/The_Right_Number_of_Elephants_illustrated_by_Felicia_Bond_childrens_book_illustrator.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-918\" class=\"size-full wp-image-918\" alt=\"A new study shows that children's books have a direct impact on how children learn about animals and the world around them. (Credit: Felicia Bond, Wikimedia Commons)\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/The_Right_Number_of_Elephants_illustrated_by_Felicia_Bond_childrens_book_illustrator.jpeg\" width=\"240\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-918\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A new study shows that children&#8217;s books have a direct impact on how children learn about animals and the world around them. (Credit: Felicia Bond, <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:The_Right_Number_of_Elephants,_illustrated_by_Felicia_Bond,_children's_book_illustrator.jpeg\">Wikimedia Commons<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A new study shows that children who read books where animals were described using anthropomorphic language (e.g. talking, arguing) or images (e.g. wearing clothes) were more likely to attribute anthropomorphic characteristics to real non-human animals that those who heard a story with realistic language or images. The authors say that such books impact children\u2019s factual learning, and suggest using a variety of informational and non-fiction books to teach children about nature.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/journal.frontiersin.org\/Journal\/10.3389\/fpsyg.2014.00283\/abstract\" target=\"_blank\">Original research paper<\/a><\/span>\u00a0published in the\u00a0journal\u00a0<em>Frontiers in Psychology<\/em>\u00a0on <strong>March<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>17, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Names and affiliations of selected<\/strong><strong>\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oise.utoronto.ca\/ics\/Laidlaw_Research_Centre\/Faculty_Profiles\/Patricia_Ganea\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Patricia Ganea<\/a>, University of Toronto<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A new study shows that children who read books where animals were described using anthropomorphic language (e.g. talking, arguing) or images (e.g. wearing clothes) were more likely to attribute anthropomorphic characteristics to real non-human animals that those who heard a story with realistic language or images. The authors say that such books impact children\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":918,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[174,975,282],"class_list":["post-917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-animals","tag-children","tag-education"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/The_Right_Number_of_Elephants_illustrated_by_Felicia_Bond_childrens_book_illustrator.jpeg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-eN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=917"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":921,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions\/921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}