Editorial: An Open Book: What and How Young Children Learn from Picture and Story Books

Horst, Jessica S.; Houston‐Price, Carmel

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01719

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“…It may be that children first observed differences and parents responded in turn. Parent–child interactions are dynamic, and this is part of the fun in reading stories with children . Further work on parent–child and peer‐to‐peer interactions related to body weight and shape is warranted.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Is Weight Bias Evident in Peer Interactions Between Young and Older Children?

Kilmurray

Collins

Caterson

et al. 2019

Obesity

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Objective This study aimed to investigate whether weight bias is apparent in young and older children’s interactions during a paired reading activity. Methods One hundred seventy‐two children (57% girls) read a book in which the main character, “Alfie,” was portrayed either as average weight or as having obesity. Younger children (mean = 6.1 years) were paired with a same‐sex older child (mean = 9.5 years). Questions within and at the end of the story prompted discussion. Children’s conversations were analyzed according to valence (emotional tone). Nonverbal behavior was noted via observation. Results Pairs of children reading about the Alfie character with obesity made significantly more negative and fewer positive comments when offering story completions. Just one pair of boys spoke about him being “fat.” There was no evidence that older children passed negative attitudes to younger children. Covertly expressed weight bias was more common. There was more frequent laughter while reading about the character with obesity, and two pairs made nonverbal reference to Alfie’s appearance. Conclusions Covert weight bias was apparent in the interactions of some of these children, but overt weight bias was rare. There is a need to establish a better chronology of children’s awareness of, and attitudes toward, obesity and how they are acquired.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Is Weight Bias Evident in Peer Interactions Between Young and Older Children?

Kilmurray

Collins

Caterson

et al. 2019

Obesity

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“…This study investigated whether parents' attempts to introduce fruit and vegetables through repeated taste exposure were helped by prior visual familiarization to foodsspecifically, a period spent looking at picture books about foods immediately before these were offered to children to taste. Book sharing is an activity enjoyed by parents and young children from the first year of life, through which children's developing understanding of the world is supported across a variety of domains (Horst & Houston-Price, 2015). The likelihood of picture books influencing children's food preferences varies according to differing theoretical perspectives on the mechanisms by which food familiarity supports acceptance.…”

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confidence: 99%

Peas, please! Food familiarization through picture books helps parents introduce vegetables into preschoolers’ diets

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Repeated taste exposure is an established means of increasing children's liking and intake of fruit and vegetables. However, parents find it difficult to offer children disliked foods repeatedly, often giving up after a few attempts. Studies show that familiarizing children to fruit and vegetables through picture books can increase their interest in tasting targeted foods. This study explored whether looking at picture books before providing foods to taste improved the outcomes of a home-delivered taste exposure regime. Parents of 127 toddlers (aged 21-24 months) identified two 'target' foods they wanted their child to eat (1 fruit, 1 vegetable). Families were randomly assigned to one of three groups. Parents and children in two experimental groups looked at books about either the target fruit or vegetable every day for two weeks; the control group did not receive a book. Parents in all three groups were then asked to offer their child both target foods every day during a 2-week taste-exposure phase. Parental ratings of children's liking and consumption of the foods were collected at baseline, immediately following taste-exposure (post-intervention), and 3 months later (follow-up). In all groups, liking of both foods increased following taste exposure and remained above baseline at follow-up (all ps < .001). In addition, compared to the control group who experienced only taste exposure, looking at vegetable books enhanced children's liking of their target vegetable post-intervention (p < .001) and at follow-up (p < .05), and increased consumption of the vegetable at follow-up (p < .01). Exposure to vegetable books was also associated with smaller increases in neophobia and food fussiness over the period of the study compared to controls (ps < .01), suggesting that picture books may have positive, long-term impacts on children's attitudes towards new foods.

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“…Picturebooks are an integral part of modern childhood in highly literate societies, and researchers have become increasingly interested in how these books work, how they are used, and how they influence social and developmental outcomes (see Horst and Houston-Price, 2015 and other papers within that special issue). The current work considers an aspect of picturebooks that has received less scholarly attention, specifically, what determines which picturebooks people like ?…”

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confidence: 99%

Factors Influencing Parents' Preferences and Parents' Perceptions of Child Preferences of Picturebooks

Wagner

2017

Front. Psychol.

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This study examined factors influencing parents' preferences and their perceptions of their children's preferences for picturebooks. First, a content analysis was conducted on a set of picturebooks (N = 87) drawn from the sample described in Wagner (2013); Then, parents (N = 149) rated the books and several content properties were examined for their ability to predict parents' preferences and their perception of their children's preferences. The initial content analysis found correlated clusters of disparate measures of complexity (linguistic, cognitive, narrative) and identified a distinctive sub-genre of modern books featuring female protagonists. The experimental preference analysis found that parents' own preferences were most influenced by the books' age and status; parents' perceptions of their children's preferences were influenced by gender, with parents perceiving their sons (but not daughters) as dis-preferring books with female protagnoists. In addition, influences of the child's reading ability and the linguistic complexity of the book on preferences suggested a sensitivity to the cultural practice of joint book-reading.

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Editorial: An Open Book: What and How Young Children Learn from Picture and Story Books

Cited by 24 publications

References 21 publications

Is Weight Bias Evident in Peer Interactions Between Young and Older Children?

Is Weight Bias Evident in Peer Interactions Between Young and Older Children?

Peas, please! Food familiarization through picture books helps parents introduce vegetables into preschoolers’ diets

Factors Influencing Parents' Preferences and Parents' Perceptions of Child Preferences of Picturebooks

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