Challenging and Controversial Picturebooks (eBook, ePUB)

Creative and critical responses to visual texts
Redaktion: Evans, Janet

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Many people assume that picturebooks are for very young readers because of their emphasis on the illustrations and scarcity of text however, there are increasing numbers of picturebooks where the age of the implied reader is questionable. These are picturebooks whose controversial subject matter and unconventional, often unsettling style of illustration challenge the reader, pushing them to question and probe deeper to understand what the book is about. In addition to the book challenging the reader, the reader often challenges the book in an attempt to understand what is being said.

These increasingly popular picturebooks work on many different levels, they are truly polysemic and worthy of in-depth analysis. They push the reader to ask questions and in many instances are intrinsically philosophical, dealing with fundamental issues which often form the basis of life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 356
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317631590
• Artikelnr.: 43075685

Autorenporträt

Janet Evans is an Independent Scholar, freelance Literacy and Educational Consultant and former Senior Lecturer in Education at Liverpool Hope University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Children's thoughts on challenging and controversial picturebooks Adults' thoughts on challenging and controversial picturebooks Part One: Challenging and controversial picturebooks: What are they and who are they for? 1. Picturebooks as Strange, Challenging and Controversial Texts Janet Evans (Independent Scholar, England) 2. The Scandal of the Commonplace: The Strangeness of Bestselling Picturebooks Perry Nodelman (The University of Winnipeg, Canada) 3. From Traditional Tales, Fairy Stories and Cautionary Tales to Controversial Visual Texts: Do we need to be Fearful? Sandra Beckett (Canada) 4. Who are these picturebooks for?: Controversial Picturebooks And The Question Of Audience Ase Marie Ommundsen (Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Norway) Part Two: Controversy and ambiguity in the art of the visual 5. Fusion Texts, the new kid on the block: What are they and where have they come from? Janet Evans (Independent Scholar, England) 6. "These books made me really curious". How visual explorations shape young readers' taste Marnie Campagnaro ( University of Padua, Italy) 7. Beware of the fox! Emotion and Deception in Fox by Margaret Wild and Ron Brooks Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer & Jörg Meibauer (Germany) 8. Fear and Strangeness in Picturebooks: Fractured Fairy Tales, Graphic Knowledge and Teachers' Concerns Elizabeth Marshall (Simon Fraser University, Canada) Part Three: Creative, Critical and Philosophical Responses to Challenging Picturebooks 9. What's Real And What's Not: Playing With The Mind In Wordless Picturebooks Sandie Mourao (Independent Scholar, Portugal) 10. Who's afraid of the big bad wolf: Responses to the portrayal of wolves in picturebooks Kerenza Ghosh (University of Roehampton, England) 11. Filling the Gaps: Exploring the Writerly Metaphors in Shaun Tan's The Red Tree Sylvia Pantaleo (University of Victoria, Canada) 12. Could This Happen To Us?: Responding To Issues Of Migration In Picturebooks Janet Evans (Independent Scholar, England) Part Four Thoughts from a children's book publisher 13. The Legendary Klaus Flugge: Controversial picturebooks and their place in contemporary society Klaus Flugge in conversation with Janet Evans

Rezensionen

"Even before I started to read Part I of Challenging and Controversial Picturebooks, I was
hooked! Janet Evans has very cleverly not only chosen eminent picturebook theorists from
around the world to contribute to this exciting and very readable book, she has also
designed it in such a way that one is plunged into the world of children's acceptance of
complex narratives as a precursor to more theoretical input." - Penni Cotton, CLELE Journal

"This collection of essays achieves a number of significant contributions to the field of picturebook studies.
Evans serves us well with this display of children's voices raised in discussion of contemporary politics." - Margaret Mackey, Literacy UKLA

"Even before I started to read Part I of Challenging and Controversial Picturebooks, I was
hooked! Janet Evans has very cleverly not only chosen eminent picturebook theorists from
around the world to contribute to this exciting and very readable book, she has also
designed it in such a way that one is plunged into the world of children's acceptance of
complex narratives as a precursor to more theoretical input." - Penni Cotton, CLELE Journal

"This collection of essays achieves a number of significant contributions to the field of picturebook studies.
Evans serves us well with this display of children's voices raised in discussion of contemporary politics." - Margaret Mackey, Literacy UKLA