How Picturebooks Work

by Maria Nikolajeva and Carole Scott

Book Overview

How Picturebooks Work is an innovative and engaging look at the interplay between text and image in picturebooks. The authors explore picturebooks as a specific medium or genre in literature and culture, one that prepares children for other media of communication, and they argue that picturebooks may be the most influential media of all in the socialization and representation of children. Spanning an international range of children's books, this book...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415979684
• ISBN13: 9780415979689
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"