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How picturebooks work / Maria Nikolajeva and Carole Scott.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Children's literature and culturePublication details: New York : Routledge, 2006.Edition: First paperback editionDescription: xi, 293 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0415979684
  • 9780415979689
  • 0815334869
  • 9780815334866
Other title:
  • How picture books work
Subject(s):
Contents:
Chapter 1. Whose Book Is It? -- Chapter 2. Setting -- Chapter 3. Characterization -- Chapter 4. Narrative Perspective -- Chapter 5. Time and Movement -- Chapter 6. Mimesis and Modality -- Chapter 7. Figurative Language, Metafiction, and Intertext -- Chapter 8. Picturebook Paratexts -- Conclusion.
Summary: "How Picturebooks Work is an innovative and engaging look at the interplay between text and image in a host of children's fiction. Drawing from an international range of major children's books, Maria Nikolajeva and Carole Scott discuss such favorites as Curious George and Frog and Toad Are Friends, along with the works of Maurice Sendak and Tove Jansson, to name a few. Picturebooks appeal to all readers - young and old. They provide common ground between generations and - perhaps more than any other literary or artistic medium - shape the representation and socialization of children. With 116 illustrations, How Picturebooks Work offers the reader a new methodology, groundbreaking theories, terminology, and working tools for understanding the dynamic picturebook form."--Book jacket.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Parent/Teacher Resource Collection-Children's Please Ask at Children's Desk 809.8928 N693 Available 33111008719656
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

Originally published: New York : Garland, 2000.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-279) and indexes.

Chapter 1. Whose Book Is It? -- Chapter 2. Setting -- Chapter 3. Characterization -- Chapter 4. Narrative Perspective -- Chapter 5. Time and Movement -- Chapter 6. Mimesis and Modality -- Chapter 7. Figurative Language, Metafiction, and Intertext -- Chapter 8. Picturebook Paratexts -- Conclusion.

"How Picturebooks Work is an innovative and engaging look at the interplay between text and image in a host of children's fiction. Drawing from an international range of major children's books, Maria Nikolajeva and Carole Scott discuss such favorites as Curious George and Frog and Toad Are Friends, along with the works of Maurice Sendak and Tove Jansson, to name a few. Picturebooks appeal to all readers - young and old. They provide common ground between generations and - perhaps more than any other literary or artistic medium - shape the representation and socialization of children. With 116 illustrations, How Picturebooks Work offers the reader a new methodology, groundbreaking theories, terminology, and working tools for understanding the dynamic picturebook form."--Book jacket.

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