Libri et liberi, 2019 Based on recent studies on materiality, picturebook research, and cognitive studies, this paper investigates how children may perceive picturebooks as objects and their material properties. In this regard, we emphasise three dimensions of picturebooks as objects and relate them to developmental stages.
Kümmerling-Meibauer, Bettina +1 more
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ANGLISTICUM. Journal of the Association-Institute for English Language and American Studies, 2023 The article presents selected Slovenian and foreign definitions of the picturebook, its classification and theories. It presents the literary-historical and theoretical development of the picturebook in Slovenia, drawing on foreign (M. Nikolajeva, S. Beckett, B. Ktimmerling-Meibauer) and Slovenian (M. Kobe, D. Haramija and J. Batic) scholars.
Milena Blažič, Arburim Iseni
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Rich pictures for stakeholder dialogue:A polyphonic picture book [PDF]
, 2018 We describe the design and use of a ‘polyphonic picture book’ for engaging stakeholders and research participants with findings from an interdisciplinary project investigating how UK citizens create and manage online identities at three significant life ...
Abigail C. Durrant +42 more
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From Thumbelina to Winnie-the-Pooh: Pictures, Words, and Sounds in Translation [PDF]
, 2008 The starting point of my article is that even though words are translators’ tools, the texts they translate often include images, sounds, and movement, too. In other words, translators need media literacy.
Oittinen, Riitta
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The narrative coherence of witness transcripts in children on the autism spectrum [PDF]
, 2019 Background and Aims. Autistic children often recall fewer details about witnessed events than typically developing children (of comparable age and ability), although the information they recall is generally no less accurate.
Crane, L. +5 more
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Breaking down barriers with wordless picturebooks: “The Silent Books Exhibition, from the world to Lampedusa and back” [PDF]
, 2018 In 2012 the Italian branch of the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) established a library on Lampedusa Island, Italy for the use of local children but also for the many refugee children arriving there from Africa and the Middle East.
McGillicuddy, Áine
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A Democracy of Children’s Literature Critics? The Opportunities and Risks of Paying Attention to Open Reviews and Mass Discussion [PDF]
, 2017 Drawing on the outputs of a wider democracy of online reviewers presents the academic study of children’s literature with opportunities and challenges, and can enhance critical discussion.
Attar, Dena
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Children's Picturebooks as cultural and geographic products: actors of spatialities, generator of spaces [PDF]
, 2013 The work presented in this paper fits in the field of cultural geography and hopes to prove that there exists a spatial turning point as defined by Edward Soja in 1996, which will allow a further look into societies, analyzing them by means of the ...
Meunier, Christophe,
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Can images transform a poem? "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer": An example of a poetry picturebook [PDF]
, 2013 This article analyzes When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer, which we consider to be an example of a poetry picturebook, a kind of text belonging to the field of children's literature which is characterized by the interaction between a poetic text and a ...
Neira Piñeiro, María del Rosario
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Viajando da cidade para o campo: representações de cenários urbanos e rurais em dois livros ilustrados portugueses [PDF]
, 2014 Research has shown that Nature is frequently found as an important element in children’s literature. Despite being depicted in a rather superfi cial and stereotypical way and touched by humanity, it is usually represented as a fun, harmonious and even
Ramos, Ana Margarida, Ramos, Rui
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