1st Edition
Talking Beyond the Page Reading and Responding to Picturebooks
Dedication Acknowledgements Foreword by David Lewis Notes on Contributors Children’s Thoughts About Picturebooks Introduction: It isn’t enough to just read a book one must talk about it as well Part One: What to respond to? Attending to aspects of picturebooks 1. Understanding Visual Images in Picturebooks 2. Developing New Literacies: Responding to picturebooks in multiliterate ways. 3. Exploring Children's Responses to the Postmodern Picturebook, Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Book? 4. Picturebook Endpapers: Resources for Literary and Aesthetic Interpretation 5. Making and breaking frames: crossing the borders of expectation in picturebooks Part Two: Different Texts, Different Responses 6. Reading The Visual: Creative and Aesthetic Responses To Picturebooks and Fine Art 7. Thinking in Action: Analysing children’s multimodal responses to multimodal picturebooks 8. Sharing visual experiences of a new culture: Immigrant children’s responses to picturebooks and other visual texts 9. Developing understanding of narrative, empathy and inference through picturebooks Part Three: Thoughts from an Author Illustrator 10. A Master in his Time: Anthony Browne shares thoughts about his work
Biography
Janet Evans is a Senior Lecturer in Education at Liverpool Hope University
