How Picturebooks Work

Name: How Picturebooks Work
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ISBN: 9780415979689

ISBN-10: 0415979684

ISBN-13: 9780415979689

Edition: 2001

Authors: Maria Nikolajeva, Carole Scott

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"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…

Book details

List price: $78.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 5/5/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 308
Size: 6.06" wide x 9.06" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Series Editor's Foreword



Acknowledgments


Illustration Acknowledgments


Introduction



Whose Book Is It?



Setting



Characterization



Narrative Perspective



Time and Movement



Mimesis and Modality



Figurative Language, Metafiction, and Intertext



Picturebook Paratexts


Conclusion


Bibliography


Index of Names


Index of Titles


Subject Index