The nature of young children's authoring

Handbook of Early Childhood Literacy

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 258-270

  Rowe, Deborah Wells ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4135/9781848608207.n22     Document Type: Chapter

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