Issue Details: First known date: 2020... 2020 Reading the Other : Empathy Through Fiction
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'The original virtual reality, reading is still probably the best way to live more than one life; to travel to worlds and places that we'll never physically visit, and to spend time in the skin of a person other than ourselves. Even if we wouldn't want to encounter some of those worlds and people in real life, we can love being transported there in a book.' (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Magpies : Talking About Books for Children vol. 35 no. 2 May/June 2020 19762424 2020 periodical issue

    'Swept along by history in the making we find ourselves in a new world that demands isolation: no leisurely gossiping, no warmth from a quick greeting hug, no sense of all's well.' (Editor's comments, Introduction)

    2020
    pg. 12-14
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