Inside Picture Books

Name: Inside Picture Books
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ISBN: 9780300084764

ISBN-10: 0300084765

ISBN-13: 9780300084764

Edition: 2000

Authors: Ellen Handler Spitz, Robert Coles

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Ellen Handler Spitz reveals how classic picture books transmit psychological wisdom, convey moral lessons, shape tastes, and implant subtle prejudices. Books discussed include Babar, Little Black Sambo, and Goodnight Moon.

Book details

List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 8/11/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 254
Size: 5.00" wide x 6.89" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English

Ellen Handler Spitz is an independent scholar and cultural critic who has published widely on the arts and psychoanalysis. She was a Gethy Scholar in 1989 and 1990 and has taught at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She currently holds an appointment in the Department of Psychiatry at the Cornell University Medical College. She is the author of Art and Psyche and Image and Insight.



Foreword



Preface: A Greeting to My Reader


Acknowledgments



Pictures, Words, and Voices



It's Time for Bed



Please Don't Cry



Behave Yourself



I Like You Just the Way You Are


A Glance Forward and Back


Picture Books Cited


Secondary Sources


Index