- 200 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Reading Contemporary Picturebooks takes a look at one of the most vibrant branches of children's literature - the modern picturebook. This exciting new book takes a sample of contemporary picturebooks and closely examines the features that make them distinctive and then suggests a way of characterising the 'interanimation' of words and pictures that is the essence of the form. The reasons for the picturebook's vitality and flexibility are also explored and the close bond between the picturebook and its readers is analyzed. Advances in our understanding of how visual images are organized are examined and the book concludes with an attempt to redescribe the picturebook in such a way that pictures, readers and text may be drawn together. Picturing Text will be of interest to students, teachers and researchers interested in reading, children's literature and media studies.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Reading Contemporary Picturebooks
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Modem picturebooks: the state of the art
- 2 The interaction of word and image in picturebooks: a critical survey
- 3 The ecology of the picturebook
- 4 The picturebook as process: making it new
- 5 Picturebooks at play
- 6 Postmodernism and the picturebook
- 7 A word about pictures
- 8 How do picturebooks come to possess meaning?
- Appendix 1 Developments in printing technology: bringing words and pictures together
- Appendix 2 Gunther Kress and Theo van Leeuwens Grammar of Visual Design
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Picturebook bibliography
- Index