Situated in the geo-cultural context of Malta, rich and diverse examples of children’s artwork offer extensive insights into children’s family and community funds of knowledge and funds of identity and the ways these contribute to children’s in-depth meaning-making about their interests and lives.
– Professor Helen Hedges, University of Auckland, New Zealand.
This beautiful book is an essential reading for all adults wishing to understand young children’s interests. Offering powerful insights into the important meanings young children convey in the drawings they create, the excellent authors are generous in sharing their extensive expertise. Josephine Deguara and Cathy Nutbrown theorise, exemplify and debate young children’s drawings, and they employ robust research findings to propose sensitive pedagogic approaches in this valuable addition to the early childhood education bookshelf.
– Professor Jane Murray, University of Northampton, UK.