How Picturebooks Work (Children's Literature and Culture) - Softcover

Nikolajeva, Maria

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415979684 ISBN 13: 9780415979689

Publisher: Routledge, 2006

Synopsis

How Picturebooks Work is an innovative and engaging look at the interplay between text and image in picturebooks. The authors explore picturebooks as a specific medium or genre in literature and culture, one that prepares children for other media of communication, and they argue that picturebooks may be the most influential media of all in the socialization and representation of children. Spanning an international range of children's books, this book examine such favorites as Curious George and Frog and Toad Are Friends, along with the works of authors and illustrators including Maurice Sendak and Tove Jansson, among others. With 116 illustrations, How Picturebooks Work offers the student of children's literature a new methodology, new theories, and a new set of critical tools for examining the picturebook form.

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Product Description:

Looks at the interplay between text and image in picturebooks. This book explores picturebooks as a specific medium or genre in literature and culture, one that prepares children for other media of communication, and argues that picturebooks may be the most influential media of all in the socialization and representation of children.

Review:

"A welcome addition to the serious study of children's literature and a must for any institution with programs in children's studies." -"Choice

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0415979684
• ISBN 13: 9780415979689
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 308