Inside Picture Books
Language: English
Published by Yale University Press, Montreal, QC, Canada, 1999
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Condition: Used - Very good
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Explore the profound impact of picture books on a child's emotional and educational development with Ellen Handler Spitz's 'Inside Picture Books.' This first edition, published by Yale University Press in 1999, offers invaluable insights into how picture books serve as an enduring resource in fostering emotional connections and educational growth. With contributions from renowned experts and psychologists, this volume is a essential for parents, educators, and psychologists wishing to enrich their understanding of child development through literature. In very good condition, this hardcover with a dust jacket is an excellent addition to any collection. Slight wear to dust jacket, clean pages, tight binding.
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- Title
- Inside Picture Books
- Author
- Ellen Handler Spitz
- Publisher
- Yale University Press, Montreal, QC, Canada
- Publication year
- 1999
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Good
- Binding
- Hard cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0300076029
- ISBN 13
- 9780300076028
- Edition
- 1st Edition
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Readers may never look at picture books in the same way after making their way through this thought-provoking examination. Focusing on her subject through the lens of psychology, Spitz argues that because picture books "provide children with some of their earliest takes on morality, taste, and basic cultural knowledge, including messages about gender, race, and class," it behooves adults to consider more carefully the images transmitted to their kids. Organized thematically, the chapters offer a wide-ranging discussion of art and artistry, visual and verbal cues and the transmission of culture through picture books that resonate with children, often for multiple generations. Whether examining motifs of darkness and abandonment in Margaret Wise Brown's classic bedtime tale "Goodnight Moon," a child's yearning for power in Maurice Sendak's "Where the Wild Things Are" or gender stereotyping in Beatrix Potter's "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" (comparing the bold and naughty Peter to his obedient sisters, she notes "the gendering is explicit: good is to girls as bad is to boys"), Spitz provides an illuminating analysis of what is often taken for granted. Sure to spark lively debate, her book is a must-read for any serious student of children's literature as well as that core group of parents, grandparents, teachers, librarians, and others who are actively engaged in raising children. Proactive, well-written, scholarly without being dry or pedantic, Spitz's text makes a compelling case for the power of art and literature, and the responsibility that accompanies such power, particularly when it relates to children.--Publishers Weekly
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