Children's picturebooks are the very first books we encounter, and they form an important, constantly evolving, and dynamic sector of the publishing world. But what does it take to create a successful picturebook for children? In seven chapters, this...
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Children's picturebooks are the very first books we encounter, and they form an important, constantly evolving, and dynamic sector of the publishing world. But what does it take to create a successful picturebook for children? In seven chapters, this book covers the key stages of conceiving a narrative, creating a visual language, and developing storyboards and design of a picturebook. The book includes interviews with leading children's picturebook illustrators, as well as case studies of their work. The picturebooks and artists featured hail from Australia, Belgium, Cuba, France, Germany, Hu
Children's Picturebooks; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1: A Brief History of the Picturebook; Early precursors; The printing of books from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century; Color printing in the nineteenth century; The birth of the modern picturebook in the late nineteenth century; From the golden age of illustration; The 1930s; Puffin Picture Books, autolithography, and the European influence; The postwar years; The 1950s and visual thinking; The 1960s; The 1970s onward; Picturebooks in the twenty-first century; Chapter 2: The Picturebook Maker's Art; Picturebooks as works of art
Education and trainingThe picturebook artist; Learning to see; Thinking through drawing; Visual communication; Student case study: Capturing a sense of place (Andrew Gordon - Last Summer by the Seaside); Student case study: Narrative nonfiction (Madalena Moniz - Manu is Feeling…From A to Z); Professional case study: The innocent eye (Beatrice Alemagna - Un Lion à Paris); Professional case study: A wordless book (Ajubel- Robinson Crusoe: A Wordless Book); Chapter 3: The Picturebook and the Child; Preamble by Morag Styles; Children reading picturebooks; Defining visual literacy
Visual texts and educational developmentHow children respond to picturebooks; Responding to word-image interaction; Analyzing color for significance; Reading body language; Reading visual metaphors; Looking and thinking; Rising to the challenges offered by picturebooks; Looking and learning; Affective responses to picturebooks; Conclusion; Chapter 4: Word and Image, Word as Image; Theorizing picturebooks; Word and image interplay; Filling in the gaps; Counterpoint and duet; Wordless books and graphic novels
Professional case study: Author and illustrator collaboration (Vladimir Radunsky and Chris Raschka - Hip Hop Dog)Professional case study: Designer and illustrator collaboration (MarcinBrykcynski [text], Joanna Olechand Marta Ignerska [illustration], Marta Ignerska [design] - Pink Piglet); Student case study: Exploiting word-image disparity (Marta Altés - No!); Chapter 5: Suitable for Children?; Violence; Love and sex; Death and sadness; Man's inhumanity to man; Professional case study: Portraying physical love (Sabien Clement - Jij lievert)
Student case study: Stylistic suitability (Rebecca Palmer and Kow Fong Lee)Chapter 6: Print and Process: The Shock of the Old; Relief printing; Screen-printing; Etching/intaglio; Lithography; Monotype and monoprint; Digital printmaking; Professional case study: The handmade picturebook (Liz Loveless); Professional case study: Merging old and new technologies (Claudia Boldt); Professional case study: From screen to screen (Gwénola Carrère - ABC des Petites Annonces); Student case study: Experimental narrative sequence in monotype (Yann Kebbi)
Professional case study: Digital printmaking (Fabian Negrin - On va au parc!)
