Sandie Mourão is a research fellow at Nova University Lisbon, with over 30 years of experience in ELT as a teacher, teacher educator and educational consult. She is presently investigating children’s literature for intercultural citizenship education in primary English education. Her main research interests focus on early years language learning, picturebooks in language learning, intercultural awareness, assessment practices and classroom-based research. Her recent publications include, Teaching English to Pre-Primary Children, Fractures and Disruptions in Children’s Literature and Early Years Second Language Education: International Perspectives on Theory and Practice.