| Description |
1 online resource (357 pages) |
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Acknowledgements; Permissions; Foreword; Notes on contributors; Children's thoughts on challenging and controversial picturebooks; Adults' thoughts on challenging and controversial picturebooks; PART I Challenging and controversial picturebooks: What are they and who are they for?; 1 Picturebooks as strange, challenging and controversial texts; 2 The scandal of the commonplace: The strangeness of best-selling picturebooks; 3 From traditional tales, fairy stories, and cautionary tales to controversial visual texts: Do we need to be fearful? |
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4 Who are these picturebooks for? Controversial picturebooks and the question of audiencePART II Controversy and ambiguity in the art of the visual; 5 Fusion texts -- the new kid on the block: What are they and where have they come from?; 6 'These books made me really curious': How visual explorations shape the young readers' taste; 7 Beware of the fox! Emotion and deception in Fox by Margaret Wild and Ron Brooks; 8 Fear and strangeness in picturebooks: Fractured fairy tales, graphic knowledge, and teachers' concerns |
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PART III Creative, critical and philosophical responses to challenging picturebooks9 What's real and what's not: Playing with the mind in wordless picturebooks; 10 Who's afraid of the big bad wolf? Children's responses to the portrayal of wolves in picturebooks; 11 Filling the gaps: Exploring the writerly metaphors in Shaun Tan's The Red Tree; 12 Could this happen to us? Children's critical responses to issues of migration in picturebooks; PART IV Thoughts from a children's book publisher; 13 The legendary Klaus Flugge: Controversial picturebooks and their place in contemporary society; Index |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781315756912 |
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1315756919 |
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