1st Edition
The Picturebook between Fiction and Reality
Picturebooks Between Fiction and Reality: An Introduction
Smiljana Narančić Kovač and Nikola Novaković
1 When Reality Steps In: The Ontological Status of Reality in Narrative Picturebooks
Smiljana Narančić Kovač
2 Books, Toys and Drawings as Portals to Fantastic Storyworlds in Greek Picturebooks: Metafiction at Work
Chryssa Kouraki
3 When Geometrical Forms Come Alive: Abstract Shapes as Characters in Picturebooks
Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer
4 Nested Anthropomorphisation in Anthony Browne’s Picturebook Willy the Dreamer
Nikola Novaković and Ivana Domitrović
5 Fictional Cities between Utopia and Dystopia. Architectural Imagination In Picturebooks by James Gurney, Jörg Müller, and Shaun Tan
Jörg Meibauer
6 Fictionalising the Book-Object in Nostalgic Picturebooks
Angela Yannicopoulou
7 Even Children Know This! Product Placement in Croatian Picturebooks between the Two World Wars
Ivana Milković and Sanja Lovrić Kralj
8 The Definition of Magic: Between Fact and Fiction in Children’s Picture Dictionaries
Sarah Hoem Iversen
Biography
Smiljana Narančić Kovač, Full Professor, recently retired from the Faculty of Teacher Education, University of Zagreb, Croatia, where she taught courses on children’s literature and was Head of the Centre for Research in Children’s Literature and Culture (2018–2023). She is the Editor-in-Chief of Libri & Liberi.
Nikola Novaković is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Teacher Education, University of Zagreb, Croatia, where he teaches courses on English literature, children’s literature and picturebook theory. His fields of interest include humour in literature, especially children’s literature, picturebooks, comic books, and graphic novels.
