Scott Carole - How Picturebooks Work - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: How Picturebooks Work is an innovative and engaging look at the interplay between text and image in picturebooks. The authors explore picturebooks as a specific medium or genre in literature and culture one that prepares children for other media of communication and they argue that picturebooks may be the most influential media of all in the socialization and representation of children. Spanning an international range of children's books this book examine such favorites as Curious George and Frog and Toad Are Friends along with the works of authors and illustrators including Maurice Sendak and Tove Jansson among others. With 116 illustrations How Picturebooks Work offers the student of children's literature a new methodology new theories and a new set of critical tools for examining the picturebook form.
Title: How Picturebooks Work
Author(s): Scott Carole
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9780415979689
Pages: 308 Pages, 75 Halftones, Black And White
Publication Date: 5/1/2006
Series: Children's Literature and Culture
Category: Literature: History & Criticism