The Routledge Companion to Picturebooks

Containing over 50 essays by leading and new scholars, this Companion is the ultimate guide to picturebooks.

Containing 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 - from hybridity and ideology to metafiction and emotions;

• Genres - from baby books through to picturebooks for adults;

• Interfaces - 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 first to focus solely on picturebook research. Its interdisciplinary approach makes it key for both scholars and students of literature, as well as education and media.

"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

Autorentext

Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer is Professor in the German Department at the University of Tübingen, Germany. She recently co-edited Learning from Picturebooks: Perspectives from Child Development and Literacy Studies (Routledge, 2015).

Klappentext

Containing 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 - from hybridity and ideology to metafiction and emotions; Genres - from baby books through to picturebooks for adults; Interfaces - 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 first to focus solely on picturebook research. Its interdisciplinary approach makes it key for both scholars and students of literature, as well as education and media.

Inhalt

Introduction: picturebook research as an international and interdisciplinary field PART I: Concepts and topics 1. Author-illustrator 2. Picture-text relationships in picturebooks 3. Picturebooks and page layout 4. Paratexts in picturebooks 5. Collage and montage in picturebooks 6. Materiality in picturebooks 7. Picturebooks and metafiction 8. Hybridity in picturebooks 9. Interpictoriality in picturebooks 10. Seriality in picturebooks 11. Emotions in picturebooks 12. Gender in picturebooks 13. Canon processes and picturebooks 14. Picturebooks and ideology PART II: Picturebook categories 15. Early-concept books and concept books ( 16. Wimmelbooks 17. ABC books 18. Pop-up and movable books 19. Wordless picturebooks 20. Postmodern picturebooks 21. Crossover picturebooks 22. Picturebooks for adults 23. Informational picturebooks 24. Poetry in picturebooks (25. Multilingual picturebooks