picturebook
Children’s Picturebooks: The Art of Visual Storytelling.
On 20, Dec 2015 | In Picturebooks | By Chris Vitale
Salisbury, Martin, and Morag Styles. Children’s Picturebooks: The Art of Visual Storytelling. Laurence King Publishing, 2012.
Referrer: Chris Vitale
Categories: picturebook, visual storytelling, publishing, printing process, history of picturebooks, picturebook psychology, picturebook themes, picturebook theory
Annotation:
Salisbury and Morag begin by outlining a brief history of the picturebook from early precursors through the birth of the modern picturebook all the way to the twenty-first century. Chapter 4, titled “Word and Image, Word as Image,” explores the relationship between words and images. Other interesting points of inquiry include the relationship of picturebooks to the child, the influence of printing process and the publishing industry, as well as whether certain themes found in picturebooks are suitable for children. This text contributes to a broad overview of picturebooks as a unique form of multimodal literature that has a variety of intricacies and influences.
Picture-Book World
On 21, Sep 2015 | In Picturebooks | By Chris Vitale
Hürlimann, Bettina, and Brian W. Alderson. Picture-Book World. The World Publishing Company, 1965.
Referrer: Chris Vitale
Categories: picturebook, international, art history, picturebook authors
Annotation:
This book is a survey of children’s picturebooks from twenty-four countries. The author notes that this is not a “technical or psychological handbook.” The primary purpose of this text is to illuminate the artistic variations of the medium of picturebooks across a range of nations. Abstracts concerning the authorship and art of picturebooks for each nation are provided. Supplementary bio-bibliographical material appears at the end of the text. Hürlimann promotes the picturebook as serious art.
