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This volume discusses the aesthetic and cognitive challenges of modern picturebooks from different countries, such as Denmark, France, Germany, Norway, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, and USA. The overarching issue concerns the mutual relationship between representation and narration by means of the picturebooks' multimodal character. Moreover, this volume includes the main lines of debate and approaches to picturebooks by international leading researchers in the field. Topics covered are the impact of paratexts and interpictorial allusions, the relationship between artists' books, crossover picturebooks, and picturebooks for adults, the narrative defiance of wordless picturebooks, the representation of emotions in images and text, and the depiction of hybrid characters in picturebooks. The enlargement of the picturebook corpus beyond an Anglo-American picturebook canon opens up new horizons and highlights the diverging styles and genre shifts in modern picturebooks. This tendency also demonstrates the influence of specific authors and illustrators on the appreciation of the picturebook genre, as in the case of Astrid Lindgren's picturebooks and the picturebooks created by renowned illustrators, such as Anthony Browne, Wolf Erlbruch, Stian Hole, and Bruno Munari. This book will be the definite contribution to contemporary picturebook research for many years to come. Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Series Editor's Foreword -- Permissions -- Introduction: Picturebooks between Representation and Narration -- PART I Crossing Genre Boundaries: Artists' Books, Wordless Picturebooks, and Picturebooks for Adults -- Chapter 1 Picturebooks for Adults -- Chapter 2 Artists' Books, Altered Books, and Picturebooks -- Chapter 3 The Art of Visual Storytelling: Formal Strategies in Wordless Picturebooks -- Chapter 4 Texts and Peritexts in Wordless and Almost Wordless Picturebooks -- Chapter 5 Wordless Picturebooks: Critical and Educational Perspectives on Meaning-making -- PART II Change, Emotions, and Hybridity: Characters in Picturebooks -- Chapter 6 Thought and dream are heavenly vehicles': Character, Bildung, and Aesthetics in Stian Hole's Garmann Trilogy (2006-2010) -- Chapter 7 "The Penguin Looked Sad": Picturebooks, Empathy and Theory of Mind -- Chapter 8 Understanding the Matchstick Man: Aesthetic and Narrative Properties of a Hybrid Picturebook Character -- PART III Interpictoriality and Visual Clues in Picturebooks -- Chapter 9 An Approximation to Intertextuality in Picturebooks: Anthony Browne and his Hypotexts -- Chapter 10 Audience, Theme and Symbolism in Wolf Erlbruch's Duck, Death and the Tulip -- Chapter 11 Learn to Read. Learn to Live: The Role of Books and Book Collections in Picturebooks -- Chapter 12 Prologue and Epilogue Pictures in Astrid Lindgren's Picturebooks -- Editor and Contributors -- Index.
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