How picturebooks work / Maria Nikolajeva and Carole Scott.

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 ma...

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Main Author: Nikolajeva, Maria
Other Authors: Scott, Carole
Other title:How picture books work.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Routledge, 2006.
Edition:1st pbk. ed.
Series:Children's literature and culture.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; How Picturebooks Work; Copyright; Contents; Series Editor's Foreword; Acknowledgments; Illustration Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1. Whose Book Is It?; Chapter 2. Setting; Chapter 3. Characterization; Chapter 4. Narrative Perspective; Chapter 5. Time and Movement; Chapter 6. Mimesis and Modality; Chapter 7. Figurative Language, Metafiction, and Intertext; Chapter 8. Picturebook Paratexts; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index of Names; Index of Titles; Subject Index.