Children Reading Pictures: New Contexts and Approaches to Picturebooks offers up-to-date research evidence on the responses of the primary audience for picturebooks - children.

Introduction: How texts teach what readers learn: Reasons for a third edition of Children Reading Pictures Part I: The original study on children responding to picturebooks 1. The original research and guidelines for emerging researchers 2. On a walk with Lily and Kitamura: How children link words and pictures along the way 3. A gorilla with 'grandpa's eyes': How children interpret ironic visual texts - a case study of Anthony Browne's Zoo 4. Picturebooks and metaliteracy: Children talking about how they read pictures 5. Thinking aloud: Looking at children drawing in response to picturebooks Part II: New developments in research on children responding to visual texts 6. Young learners looking and making in the art museum and classroom 7. Psyche, Picnics and Penguin: Case studies of children responding to visual texts 8. Children reading literary apps 9. Diverse readers, diverse picturebooks, diverse responses Part III: Research and theory for a better future 10. Understanding children's responses to picturebooks through theory and research 11. Epilogue: What children have taught us about reading pictures Afterword: Reading is marvellous anywhere