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Book SynopsisContaining forty-eight chapters, The Routledge Companion to Picturebooks is the ultimate guide to picturebooks. It contains a detailed introduction, surveying the history and development of the field and emphasizing the international and cultural diversity of picturebooks. Divided into five key parts, this volume covers:
- Concepts and topics â from hybridity and ideology to metafiction and emotions;
- Genres â from baby books through to picturebooks for adults;
- Interfaces â their relations to other forms such as comics and visual media;
- Domains and theoretical approaches, including developmental psychology and cognitive studies;
- Adaptations.
With ground-breaking contributions from leading and emerging scholars alike, this comprehensive volume is one of the
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"The articles in the companion are indeed carefully anchored in compelling picturebook material, and each chapter offers a volu-minous list of references, which makes the volume perfect for teach-ing purposes. The generous lists of references also provide excellent sources for further research. It is evident that this well-written and pedagogical companion will inspire new studies and help diversify this manifold, complex and growing field of research further."
- Mia Österlund, Åbo Akademi University, Barnboken
Table of Contents
Introduction: Picturebook Research Comes of Age
Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer
PART I: Concepts and Topics
1. Author-Illustrator
Kerry Mallan
2. Picture-Text-Relationships in Picturebooks
Nathalie op de Beeck
3. Layout of Picturebooks
Megan Lambert
4. Paratexts in Picturebooks
Sylvia Pantaleo
5. Montage and Collage in Picturebooks
Elina Druker
6. Materiality in Picturebooks
Ilgim Veryeri Alaca
7. Picturebooks and Metafiction
Cecilia Silva-Díaz
8. Hybridity in Picturebooks
Helma van Lierop-Debrauwer
9. Interpictoriality in Picturebooks
Beatriz Hoster Cabo, Maria José Lobato Suero, and Alberto Manuel Ruiz Campos
10. Seriality in Picturebooks
Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer
11. Emotions in Picturebooks
Maria Nikolajeva
12. Picturebooks and Gender
Karen Coats
13. Canon Processes and Picturebooks
Erica Hateley
14. Picturebooks and Ideology
John Stephens
PART II: Picturebook Categories
15. Early Concept Books and Concept Books
Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer and Jörg Meibauer
16. Wimmelbooks
Cornelia Rémi
17. ABC Books
Marie-Pierre Litaudon
18. Pop Up and Movable Books
Ann Montanaro Staples
19. Wordless Picturebooks
Emma Bosch
20. Postmodern Picturebooks
Cherie Allan
21. Crossover Picturebooks
Sandra Beckett
22. Picturebooks for Adults
Åse Marie Ommundsen
23. Informational Picturebooks
Nikola von Merveldt
24. Poetry in Picturebooks
Donelle Ruwe
25. Multilingual Picturebooks
Nancy Hadaway and Terrell Young
26. Digital Picturebooks
Maria Nikolajeva and Ghada Al-Yaquot
PART III: Interfaces
27. Picturebooks and Illustrated Books
Elizabeth Bird and Junko Yokota
28. Artists’ Books and Picturebooks
Johanna Drucker
29. Picturebooks and Photography
Jane Wattenberg
30. Picturebooks and Comics
Lara Saguisag
31. Picturebooks and Movies
Tobias Kurwinkel
PART IV: Domains
32. The Education of a Picturebook-Maker
Martin Salisbury
33. Research in Picturebooks: The Wider Path
William Moebius
34. Picturebooks and Representations of Childhood
Nina Christensen
35. Picturebooks and Literacy Studies
Evelyn Arizpe, Jennifer Farrar, and Julie McAdam
36. Picturebooks and Developmental Psychology
Elaine Reese and Jessica Johnston
37. Picturebooks and Cognitive Studies
Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer and Jörg Meibauer
38. Picturebooks and Linguistics
Eva Gressnich
39. Picturebooks and Narratology
Smiljana Narancic Kovac
40. Multimodal Analysis of Picturebooks
Clare Painter
41. Art History and the Picturebook
Marilynn Olson
42. Picture Theory and Picturebooks
Lukas Wilde and Nikolas Potysch
43. Picturebooks and Media Studies
Margaret Mackey
44. Picturebooks and Translation
Riitta Oittinen
PART V: Adaptations and Remediation
45. Picturebooks as Adaptations of Fairy Tales
Vanessa Joosen
46. Picturebooks as Adaptations of World Literature
Marlene Zöhrer
47. Film Versions of Picturebooks
Johanna Tydecks
48. Picturebooks, Merchandising, and Franchising
Naomi Hamer
