Over the past 15 years, there has been a pronounced trend toward a particular type of picturebook that many would label "postmodern." Postmodern picturebooks have stretched our conventional notion of what constitutes a picturebook, as well as what it means to be an engaged reader of these texts. The international researchers and scholars included in this compelling collection of work critically examine and discuss postmodern picturebooks, and reflect upon their unique contributions to both the field of children’s literature and to the development of new literacies for child, adolescent, and adult readers.
Author(s): Lawrence R. Sipe, Sylvia Pantaleo
Edition: 1
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 280
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
List of Figures and Tables......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 12
Introduction: Postmodernism and Picturebooks......Page 14
1 What is a Picturebook, Anyway?: The Evolution of Form and Substance Through the Postmodern Era and Beyond......Page 22
2 The Artist and the Postmodern Picturebook......Page 35
3 Radical Change Theory, Postmodernism, and Contemporary Picturebooks......Page 54
4 Play and Playfulness in Postmodern Picturebooks......Page 68
5 Postmodern Picturebooks and the Transmodern Self......Page 88
6 “They are Always Surprised at What People Throw Away”: Glocal Postmodernism in Australian Picturebooks......Page 102
7 Postmodern Picturebooks and the Material Conditions of Reading......Page 116
8 The Paradox of Space in Postmodern Picturebooks......Page 130
9 Imagination and Multimodality: Reading, Picturebooks, and Anxieties About Childhood......Page 143
10 Postmodern Picturebook as Artefact: Developing Tools for an Archaeological Dig......Page 160
11 Lauren Child: Utterly and Absolutely Exceptionordinarily......Page 177
12 Would I Lie to You?: Metalepsis and Modal Disruption in Some “True” Fairy Tales......Page 193
13 “It Doesn’t Say How?”: Third Graders’ Collaborative Sense-Making from Postmodern Picturebooks......Page 206
14 The Voices Behind the Pictures: Children Responding to Postmodern Picturebooks......Page 220
15 First Graders Interpret David Wiesner’s The Three Pigs: A Case Study......Page 236
16 Ed Vere’s The Getaway: Starring a Postmodern Cheese Thief......Page 251
Contributors......Page 270
Index......Page 274
