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

"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." -- Publisher's description Introduction. Postmodernism And Picturebooks / Sylvia Pantaleo And Lawrence R. Sipe -- 1. What Is A Picturebook, Anyway?: The Evolution Of Form And Substance Through The Postmodern Era And Beyond / Barbara Kiefer -- 2. The Artist And The Postmodern Picturebook / Martin Salisbury -- 3. Radical Change Theory, Postmodernism, And Contemporary Picturebooks / Eliza T. Dresang -- 4. Play And Playfulness In Postmodern Picturebooks / Maria Nikolajeva -- 5. Postmodern Picturebooks And The Transmodern Self / Karen Coats -- 6. They Are Always Surprised At What People Throw Away: Glocal Postmodernism In Australian Picturebooks / John Stephens -- 7. Postmodern Picturebooks And The Material Conditions Of Reading / Margaret Mackey -- 8. The Paradox Of Space In Postmodern Picturebooks / Bette Goldstone -- 9. Imagination And Multimodality: Reading, Picturebooks, And Anxieties About Childhood / Christine Hall -- 10. Postmodern Picturebook As Artefact: Developing Tools For An Archaeological Dig / Michele Anstey -- 11. Lauren Child: Utterly And Absolutely Exceptionordinarily / Susan S. Lehr -- 12. Would I Lie To You?: Metalepsis And Modal Disruption In Some True Fairy Tales / Robyn Mccallum -- 13. It Doesn't Say How?: Third Graders' Collaborative Sense- Making From Postmodern Picturebooks / Caroline Mcguire, Monica Belfatti And Maria Ghiso -- 14. The Voices Behind The Pictures: Children Responding To Postmodern Picturebooks / Evelyn Arizpe, Morag Styles, Kate Cowan, Louiza Mallouri And Mary Anne Wolpert -- 15. First Graders Interpret David Wiesner's The Three Pigs: A Case Study / Lawrence R. Sipe -- 16. Ed Vere's The Getaway: Starring A Postmodern Cheese Thief / Sylvia Pantaleo. Edited By Lawrence R. Sipe And Sylvia Pantaleo. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Book Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 Dedication......Page 6 Contents......Page 8 List of Figures and Tables......Page 10 Acknowledgments......Page 12 Introduction: Postmodernism and Picturebooks......Page 14 1 What is a Picturebook, Anyway?: The Evolution of Form and Substance Through the Postmodern Era and Beyond......Page 22 2 The Artist and the Postmodern Picturebook......Page 35 3 Radical Change Theory, Postmodernism, and Contemporary Picturebooks......Page 54 4 Play and Playfulness in Postmodern Picturebooks......Page 68 5 Postmodern Picturebooks and the Transmodern Self......Page 88 6 “They are Always Surprised at What People Throw Away”: Glocal Postmodernism in Australian Picturebooks......Page 102 7 Postmodern Picturebooks and the Material Conditions of Reading......Page 116 8 The Paradox of Space in Postmodern Picturebooks......Page 130 9 Imagination and Multimodality: Reading, Picturebooks, and Anxieties About Childhood......Page 143 10 Postmodern Picturebook as Artefact: Developing Tools for an Archaeological Dig......Page 160 11 Lauren Child: Utterly and Absolutely Exceptionordinarily......Page 177 12 Would I Lie to You?: Metalepsis and Modal Disruption in Some “True” Fairy Tales......Page 193 13 “It Doesn’t Say How?”: Third Graders’ Collaborative Sense-Making from Postmodern Picturebooks......Page 206 14 The Voices Behind the Pictures: Children Responding to Postmodern Picturebooks......Page 220 15 First Graders Interpret David Wiesner’s The Three Pigs: A Case Study......Page 236 16 Ed Vere’s The Getaway: Starring a Postmodern Cheese Thief......Page 251 Contributors......Page 270 Index......Page 274 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--Résumé de l'éditeur Examines and discusses postmodern picturebooks, and reflects upon their contributions to both the field of children's literature and to the development of literacies for child, adolescent, and adult readers.