Reading Contemporary Picturebooks: Picturing Text (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780415208871)

Reading Contemporary Picturebooks takes a look at one of the most vibrant branches of children's literature - the modern picturebook. This exciting new book takes a sample of contemporary picturebooks and closely examines the features that make them distinctive and then suggests a way of characterising the 'interanimation' of words and pictures that is the essence of the form. The reasons for the picturebook's vitality and flexibility are also explored and the close bond between the picturebook and its readers is analyzed. Advances in our understanding of how visual images are organized are examined and the book concludes with an attempt to redescribe the picturebook in such a way that pictures, readers and text may be drawn together. Picturing Text will be of interest to students, teachers and researchers interested in reading, children's literature and media studies.

Author: David Lewis
ISBN-10: 0415208874
ISBN-13: 9780415208871
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 04/12/2001
Pages: 204
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 9.24h x 6.24w x 0.41d