Carina Rodrigues is an Invited Adjunct Professor at the Lisbon School of Education of the Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon (ESELx/IPL), Portugal. She has a PhD in Literature at the University of Aveiro, Portugal (2013). She holds a Master's Degree in Educational Sciences from the same University (2008) and a Degree in Preschool Education from the Coimbra Education School of the Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra, Portugal (2004). She is a researcher/full member of the CIEC (University of Minho, Braga) and a collaborator member of the CLLC (University of Aveiro, Portugal), the International Research Groups LIJMI and LITER21 (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain), the Portuguese-Galician Research Association ELOS (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain), the Groups IMAGO (University of La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain) and PROTEXTOS (CIDTFF, University of Aveiro, Portugal), and the Research Group on the Object-book (started at the University of Aveiro, Portugal). She is the author of several articles, both in Portugal and abroad, in the field of Children's Literature and reading promotion and education.