How Picturebooks Work
How Picturebooks Work by Maria Nikolajeva, published by Routledge in 2006, is a comprehensive exploration of the relationship between text and image in picturebooks. This edition, consisting of 293 pages, delves into picturebooks as a unique medium within literature and culture, emphasizing their role in shaping children’s understanding of communication and socialization.
Readers will find an analysis that spans a variety of international children’s books, featuring well-known titles such as Curious George and Frog and Toad Are Friends, as well as the works of notable authors and illustrators like Maurice Sendak and Tove Jansson. The book includes 116 illustrations and presents innovative methodologies and theories, providing critical tools for examining the picturebook form within the context of literary criticism and children’s literature.
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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 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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