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Recently in my Issues in Children’s Literature class, I coined the phrase the “narcissistic reader” in response to the all too common practice of privileging a reader’s opinion without considering what the writer was trying to do/create/convey, etc. & why. The same applies to illustrators. I’ll write more about this later.

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