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Virginia Lowe

Jump, Baby! by Penny Matthews, illustrated by Dominique Falla & Baby Bear Goes to the Park by Lorette Broekstra

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April 2003, no. 250
Virginia Lowe reviews 'Baby Bear Goes to the Park' by Lorette Broekstra, 'Pigs Don’t Fly!' by Jackie French, 'Jump, Baby!' by Penny Matthews, and 'The Dragon Machine' by Helen Ward

Pigs don’t fly, but dragons and kites do, and possums can jump, which is perhaps just as scary if you’re a little one. These four picture books deal with flight, their authors and illustrators using more or less imaginary elements in the process.

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Letters to the Editor

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November 2007, no. 296

Lifelong love of books

Dear Editor,

Ruth Starke’s review of my book Stories, Picture and Reality: Two Children Tell (October 2007) is a competent, even enthusiastic, summary of the book’s main points, with emphasis on its uniqueness (starting with infants and books, and including siblings). She notes that no other male child has been studied in this way.

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Stories, Pictures and Reality: Two children tell by Virginia Lowe

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October 2007, no. 295
Ruth Starke reviews 'Stories, Pictures and Reality: Two children tell' by Virginia Lowe

Virginia Lowe has carved an academic career in the area of ‘childist criticism’ based on the responses of very young children (particularly her own) to books. Shortly after their daughter, Rebecca, was born in 1971, the Lowes began to read to her. Virginia recorded the process in a daily journal. Three years later, when their son, Ralph, was born, she recorded his reactions as well, and continued the journal in detail for about eight years. It comprises some 6,000 pages covering almost 2,000 books and the children’s engagement with them, and it formed the basis of her PhD thesis, of which Stories, Pictures and Reality: Two Children Tell, is a reworking.

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