The international researchers and scholars included in this compelling collection of work critically examine and discuss postmodern picturebooks, and reflect upon their unique contributions to both the field of children's literature and to the...
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The international researchers and scholars included in this compelling collection of work critically examine and discuss postmodern picturebooks, and reflect upon their unique contributions to both the field of children's literature and to the development of new literacies for child, adolescent, and adult readers
Title from e-book title screen (viewed December 12, 2008)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Electronic reproduction
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Postmodernism and Picturebooks; 1 What is a Picturebook, Anyway?: The Evolution of Form and Substance Through the Postmodern Era and Beyond; 2 The Artist and the Postmodern Picturebook; 3 Radical Change Theory, Postmodernism, and Contemporary Picturebooks; 4 Play and Playfulness in Postmodern Picturebooks; 5 Postmodern Picturebooks and the Transmodern Self; 6 "They are Always Surprised at What People Throw Away": Glocal Postmodernism in Australian Picturebooks
7 Postmodern Picturebooks and the Material Conditions of Reading8 The Paradox of Space in Postmodern Picturebooks; 9 Imagination and Multimodality: Reading, Picturebooks, and Anxieties About Childhood; 10 Postmodern Picturebook as Artefact: Developing Tools for an Archaeological Dig; 11 Lauren Child: Utterly and Absolutely Exceptionordinarily; 12 Would I Lie to You?: Metalepsis and Modal Disruption in Some "True" Fairy Tales; 13 "It Doesn't Say How?": Third Graders' Collaborative Sense-Making from Postmodern Picturebooks
14 The Voices Behind the Pictures: Children Responding to Postmodern Picturebooks15 First Graders Interpret David Wiesner's The Three Pigs: A Case Study; 16 Ed Vere's The Getaway: Starring a Postmodern Cheese Thief; Contributors; Index
