Reading Contemporary Picturebooks : Picturing Text

ISBN-13: 9780415208864 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 200 str.

David Lewis

Opis

Even with the advent of the Literacy Hour and its focus on using books of a wide range of genres, the picture book had already become the focus of serious study by teachers and children's literature specialists. 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.

Recenzje

'Described by its author as eclectic and possibly eccentric, Lewis's book is, for the reader, like accompanying a reflective guide on an exploratory tour of a territory that proves to be vaster and much more intriguing than many travellers might have envisaged. It's a real "teaching" text, with the author's voice coming across clearly: musing, explaining, insisting upon and restating matters, and occasionally sounding mildly critical.' - Jane Doonan

Spis treści

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?;

O autorze

David Lewis is one of the leading British specialists on picturebooks. He was formerly Lecturer in Primary Education at the University of Exeter.