Crossover Picturebooks: A Genre for All Ages

ISBN-13: 9780415872300 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 414 str.

Sandra Beckett

Opis

Although crossover fiction is now recognized as a distinct literary genre and marketing category by critics, publishers, booksellers, writers, and readers, the term crossover is generally used in a very narrow sense for children's and young adult novels read by adults. Picturebooks that cross from young readers to an adult audience have been overlooked, despite the fact that picturebooks, more than any other genre, can genuinely be books for all ages, and indeed, many contemporary picturebooks deny and defy publishers' often very age-specific categories of readers. This study will examine an international corpus of contemporary picturebooks--including artists' books, celebrity picturebooks, and others-- that appeal to readers of all ages. A wide selection of picturebooks in many languages from around the globe will be analyzed. The study will focus on contemporary picturebooks, with emphasis on those published since 1990, but important earlier examples will also be mentioned to provide a historical context.

Spis treści

Series Editor’s Foreward  Acknowledgements  1. Picturebooks as a Crossover Genre  2. Artists’ Books  3. Wordless Picturebooks  4. Picturebooks with Allusions to the Fine Arts  5. Picturebooks with Cross-Generational Themes  6. Celebrity Picturebooks Epilogue: The Ultimate Crossover Genre  Bibliography  Index

O autorze

Sandra L. Beckett is Professor of French at Brock University. She is the author of Crossover Fiction: Global and Historical Perspectives (Routledge, 2009), Red Riding Hood for All Ages: A Fairy Tale Icon in Cross-Cultural Contexts (2008), Recycling Red Riding Hood (Routledge, 2002), and De grands romanciers écrivent pour les enfants (1997). She is the editor of Transcending Boundaries: Writing for a Dual Audience of Children and Adults (Routledge, 1999), and Reflections of Change: Children’s Literature Since 1945 (1997), and the co-editor of Beyond Babar: The European Tradition in Children’s Literature (2006).