Postmodern Picturebooks: Play, Parody, and Self-Referentiality (Routledge Research in Education) (Hardcover)

~ Lawrence R. Sipe (Editor), Sylvia Pantaleo (Editor)
Key Phrases: reading contemporary picturebooks, little red hen, play pen, New York, Radical Change, The Getaway (more...)

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Listening to the children is essential work. Not just because it inches forward our understanding of literacy learning, but also because it keeps us grounded in the facts of real books and real readers. The world has not really turned upside down, though one small corner of it has, and that in a most decisive and curious fashion. The writers assembled here under the watchful eyes of Sipe and Pantaleo have, on the whole, mapped out this corner pretty thoroughly... -- David Lewis, Childrens Literature Association Quarterly, 2008

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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.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 268 pages
• Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (April 3, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0415962102
• ISBN-13: 978-0415962100
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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