The role of genre in preschoolers' response to picture books

Research in the Teaching of English

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 197-251

  Shine, Stephanie ^a   Roser, Nancy L ^b  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

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