1st Edition

Picturebooks Beyond the Borders of Art, Narrative and Culture

Edited By Evelyn Arizpe, Maureen Farrell, Julie McAdam Copyright 2013
174 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

The picturebook is now recognized as a sophisticated art form that has provided a space for some of the most exciting innovations in the field of children’s literature. This book brings together the work of expert scholars from the UK, the USA and Europe to present original theoretical perspectives and new research on picturebooks and their readers. The authors draw on a variety of... Read more

1. Introduction Evelyn Arizpe, Maureen Farrell and Julie McAdam  2. What is a Picturebook? Across the borders of history Barbara Kiefer  3. On the Strangeness of Pop Art Picturebooks: Pictures, texts, paratexts Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer and Jörg Meibauer  4. Before and After the Picture Frame: A typology of endpapers Teresa Duran and Emma Bosch  5. ‘Must We to Bed Indeed?’ Beds as cultural signifiers in picturebooks for children Maria Nikolajeva and Liz Taylor  6. Picturebooks and Multiple Readings: "When We Lived in Uncle’s Hat" by Peter Stamm and Jutta Bauer Jean Webb  7. ‘Jings! Crivens! Help ma Boab!’ - It’s a Scottish Picturebook Maureen Farrell  8. Do You Live a Life of Riley?: Thinking and talking about the purpose of life in picturebook responses Janet Evans  9. Reading Mental Processes in "The Arrival" Brenda Bellorín and María Cecilia Silva Díaz  10. Crossing Visual Borders and Connecting Cultures: Children’s responses to the photographic theme in David Wiesner’s "Flotsam" Evelyn Arizpe and Julie McAdam

Biography

Evelyn Arizpe is Senior Lecturer in the School of Education at the University of Glasgow, UK, and coordinates the MEd in Children’s Literature and Literacies. She has taught and published widely in the areas of literacies, reader- response to picturebooks and children’s literature. Previous publications include Children Reading Picture: Interpreting visual texts (2003).

Maureen Farrell is Senior Lecturer in the Language Department of the School of Education at the University of Glasgow, UK. Her research interests focus around Scottish Children’s and Young Adult literature, picturebooks and identity formation. She has published several articles on these topics.

Julie McAdam is a teacher educator in the Language Department of the School of Education at the University of Glasgow, UK. Prior to working at Glasgow, Julie worked in Cairo, Budapest, Lisbon and the United Arab Emirates in EFL. She was a contributing author to Threshold Concepts in the Disciplines (2009).