This volume represents the current state of research on picture books and other adjacent hybrid forms of　visual/verbal texts such as comics, graphic novels, and book apps, with a particular focus on texts produced for and　about young people. When Perry Nodelman's Words about Pictures: the Narrative Art of Children's Picture Books　was published almost three decades ago, it was greeted as an important contribution to studies in children's　picture books and illustration internationally; and based substantially on it, Nodelman has recently been named the 2015...