More Words about Pictures: Current Research on Picturebooks and Visual/Verbal Texts for Young People (Children's Literature and Culture)

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 recipient of the International Grimm Award for children’s literature criticism. In the years since __Words About Pictures__ appeared, scholars have built on Nodelman’s groundbreaking text and have developed a range of other approaches, both to picture books and to newer forms of visual/verbal texts that have entered the marketplace and become popular with young people. The essays in this book offer 'more words' about established and emerging forms of picture books, providing an overview of the current state of studies in visual/verbal texts and gathering in one place the work being produced at various locations and across disciplines. Essays exploring areas such as semiological and structural aspects of conventional picture books, graphic narratives and new media forms, and the material and performative cultures of picture books represent current work not only from literary studies but also media studies, art history, ecology, Middle Eastern Studies, library and information studies, and educational research. In addition to work by international scholars including William Moebius, Erica Hateley, Nathalie op de Beeck, and Nina Christensen that carries on and challenges the conclusions of __Words about Pictures__, the collection also includes a wide-ranging reflection by Perry Nodelman on continuities and changes in the current interdisciplinary field of study of visual/verbal texts for young readers. Providing a look back over the history of picture books and the development of picture book scholarship, __More Words About Pictures__ also offers an overview of our current understanding of these intriguing texts. In The Current Era Where Lifelong Learning Takes The Fore, Higher Education Can No Longer Be Regarded As An Isolated Trajectory Within One's Educational Career And Many Students Face Substantial Challenges In Crafting Their Professional Future. More Specifically, The Transition From School To Higher Education And The Labour Market Is Often A Difficult Hurdle For Many Students. Almost Half Of Students Do Not Succeed In The First Year And Often Withdraw From Education, Students Are Faced With A Variety Of Contexts And May Choose To Study In A Different (international) Context, And They Are Often Confronted With Structural Barriers In Finding A (high-quality) Job, As Evidenced By Increasing Levels Of Youth Unemployment And Underemployment. 'higher Education Transitions' Aims To Deepen Our Understanding Of The Transitions Taking Place When Students Enter, Progress And Leave Higher Education To Enter The Labour Market. Drawing On An International Team Of Contributors, This Guide Examines Fifteen Empirical Studies Which Include A Range Of Quantitative, Qualitative, Cross-sectional And Longitudinal Studies. Divided Into Three Sections To Reflect Each Important Transition Phase, Topics Include: Transitions From Secondary To Higher Education; Transitions Within Higher Education; Transitions From Higher Education To The Labour Market. By Considering Transitions Across Different Phases As A Broad And Interrelated Process, This Guide Will Be Essential Reading For Higher Education Researchers, Policy Stakeholders And All Those Interested In The Transitions Into Higher Education And The Labour Market. Introduction: Why We Need More Words / Perry Nodelman -- Chewing On Baby Books As A Form Of Infant Literacy : Books Are For Biting / Lian Beveridge -- Six Degrees Of Closeness In The Picture Book Experience : Getting Closer / William Moebius -- Art, Adaptation, And The Antipodean In Shaun Tan's The Lost Thing / Erica Hateley -- The Design And Development Of The Picture Book For Mobile And Interactive Platforms : You Get To Be Harold's Purple Crayon / Naomi Hamer -- Towards A Connective Ethnography Of Children's Literature And Digital Media : The New Media Encounter / Helene Hoyrup -- Performing Picture Books As A Co-authorship : Audiences Critically And Semiotically Interact With Professional Authors During Author Visits / Kari-lynn Winters...[et Al.] -- Environmental Picture Books : Cultivating Conservationists / Nathalie Op De Beeck -- Visual Staging Of Virtue In Islamic Children's Literature : Discipline And Pleasure / Torsten Janson -- Between Picture Book And Graphic Novel : Mixed Signals In Kim Fupz Aakeson And Rasmus Bregnhoi's I Love You Danmark / Nina Christensen -- Narrative Space In Sheree Fitch's Merry-go-day And Night Sky Wheel Ride : Picture-book Poesis / Andrea Schwenke Wyile -- Be Kind Or Stupid / Joseph T. Thomas, Jr. Edited By Naomi Hamer, Perry Nodelman, And Mavis Reimer. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.