1st Edition
More Words about Pictures Current Research on Picturebooks and Visual/Verbal Texts for Young People
CONTENTS
Preface: Naomi Hamer and Mavis Reimer
Figure Credits
List of Contributors
Introduction: Why We Need More Words Perry Nodelman
Chapter 1: Chewing on Baby Books as a Form of Infant Literacy: Books are for Biting Lian Beveridge
Chapter 2: Six Degrees of Closeness in the Picture Book Experience: Getting Closer William Moebius
Chapter 3: Art, Adaptation, and the Antipodean in Shaun Tan’s The Lost Thing
Erica Hateley
Chapter 4: The Design and Development of the Picture Book for Mobile and Interactive Platforms: "You get to BE Harold’s Purple Crayon" Naomi Hamer
Chapter 5: Towards a Connective Ethnography of Children’s Literature and Digital Media: The New Media Encounter Helene Høyrup
Chapter 6: Performing Picture Books as Co-Authorship: Audiences Critically and Semiotically Interact with Professional Authors during Author Visits Kari-Lynn Winters, Candace Figg, Kimberly Lenters, and Dave Potts
Chapter 7: Environmental Picture Books: Cultivating Conservationists Nathalie op de Beeck
Chapter 8: Visual Staging of Virtue in Islamic Children’s Literature: Discipline and Pleasure Torsten Janson
Chapter 9: Between Picture Book and Graphic Novel: Mixed Signals in Kim Fupz Aakeson and Rasmus Bregnhøi’s I love you Danmark
Nina Christensen
Chapter 10: Narrative Space in Sheree Fitch’s Merry-Go-Day and Night Sky Wheel Ride: Picture-Book PoesisAndrea Schwenke Wyile
Chapter 11: Be Kind or Stupid Joseph T. Thomas, Jr.
Biography
Perry Nodelman is Professor Emeritus at the University of Winnipeg, Canada. He is a past President of the Children’s Literature Association and has been Editor of both the Children’s Literature Association Quarterly and Canadian Children’s Literature.
Naomi Hamer is Assistant Professor at the University of Winnipeg, Canada, an executive board member of the Association for Research in Cultures of Young People, and an editor for Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures.
Mavis Reimer is Dean of Graduate Studies and Professor of English at the University of Winnipeg, Canada. She was Canada Research Chair in Young People's Texts and Cultures between 2005 and 2015 and is the founding editor of Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures.
