Words about Pictures: The Narrative Art of Children's Picture Books - Softcover

Nodelman, Perry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0820312711 ISBN 13: 9780820312712

Publisher: University of Georgia Press, 1990

Synopsis

A pioneering study of a unique narrative form, Words about Pictures examines the special qualities of picture books―books intended to educate or tell stories to young children. Drawing from a number of aesthetic and literary sources, Perry Nodelman explores the ways in which the interplay of the verbal and visual aspects of picture books conveys more narrative information and stimulation than either medium could achieve alone. Moving from "baby" books, alphabet books, and word books to such well-known children's picture books as Nancy Ekholm Burkert's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Gerald McDermott's Arrow to the Sun, Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are, and Chris Van Allsburg's The Garden of Abdul Gasazi, Nodelman reveals how picture-book narrative is affected by the exclusively visual information of picture-book design and illustration as well as by the relationships between pictures and their complementary texts.

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About the Author

PERRY NODELMAN is a professor of English at the University of Winnipeg. He is the author of The Pleasures of Children's Literature, an introduction to literary and theoretical approaches to children's literature recently released in a new third edition written in collaboration with Mavis Reimer. He has also published three novels for young adults and, in collaboration with Carol Matas, the young adult Fantasies in the Minds series.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0820312711
• ISBN 13: 9780820312712
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320