Mapping Literacy: Charting the Territory of the Texts We Love

Scott Lingley - 3 December 2015

One of the artifacts from Margaret Mackey's childhood is a picture book about Santa Claus that's part of her earliest memories. She describes it as a cheap little thing printed on flimsy paper with no discernible literary merit. But when she recently found a copy and flipped to a page depicting kids making Christmas cookies, Mackey says the image stirred an internal experience she could scarcely put into words.