204 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
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Reading Contemporary Picturebooks takes a look at one of the most vibrant branches of children's literature - the modern picturebook. This exciting new book takes a sample of contemporary picturebooks and closely examines the features that make them distinctive and then suggests a way of characterising the 'interanimation' of words and pictures that is the essence of the form. The reasons for... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 Modern picturebooks; Chapter 2 The interaction of word and image in picturebooks; Chapter 3 The ecology of the picturebook; Chapter 4 The picturebook as process; Chapter 5 Picturebooks at play; Chapter 6 Postmodernism and the picturebook; Chapter 7 A word about pictures; Chapter 8 How do picturebooks come to possess meaning?;
Biography
David Lewis is one of the leading British specialists on picturebooks. He was formerly Lecturer in Primary Education at the University of Exeter.
'Described by its author as eclectic and possibly eccentric, Lewis's book is, for the reader, like accompanying a reflective guide on an exploratory tour of a territory that proves to be vaster and much more intriguing than many travellers might have envisaged. It's a real "teaching" text, with the author's voice coming across clearly: musing, explaining, insisting upon and restating matters, and occasionally sounding mildly critical.' - Jane Doonan
