Beschreibung:
This book analyzes how picture books work - the role of picture books in learning to read, how children make meaning from pictures, and how teachers can make best use of picture books in the classroom.
Introduction; Chapter 1 Modern picturebooks; Chapter 2 The interaction of word and image in picturebooks; Chapter 3 The ecology of the picturebook; Chapter 4 The picturebook as process; Chapter 5 Picturebooks at play; Chapter 6 Postmodernism and the picturebook; Chapter 7 A word about pictures; Chapter 8 How do picturebooks come to possess meaning?;