I’m currently working on a project about picture books that describe visits to art galleries and museums by young children and animals, and I’d be grateful for some help in identifying some paintings referred to in one of the books. Thierry Ducos’ L’Ange Disparu. Read more here:
Searching for Some Paintings
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As Canadian as Apple Pie and Old Glory: a review of a lot of Canadian picture books
A is for . . . What? The function of Alphabet Books
Becoming What You Eat: Identifying with Food in Children’s Literature
Beneath Aesthetics: the Picture Book Stripped Bare
Decoding the Images: How Picture Books Work
The eye and the I: Identification and first-person narratives in picture books
How But Not What or Why (a review of Nikolajeva and Scott’s How Picturebooks Work)
The Illustrators of (Robert) Munsch
The Mirror Staged: Images of Babies in Baby Books
Non-Native Primitive Art: Elizabeth Cleaver’s Picture Books
Of Nakedness in Children’s Picture Books
Private Places on Public View: David Wiesner’s Picture Books. Despite their visual similarities, a number of David Wiesner’s picture books represent different genres. This essay explores how the picture books challenge theories of SF and fantasy, and how the books and the theories both celebrate and undermine the liberating potential of fantasy.
Perry Nodelman 