The thesis is about picture books and how children read them, and is divided into three parts. In part one I identify a striking parallel between certain exemplary contemporary picture books and the tendency within adult fiction known as postmodernism or metafiction. I enlarge upon this analogy and attempt to establish a tentative taxonomy of metafictive picture books. Part one concludes with an account of an early attempt at exploring how young children read such texts, and with the establishing of the core questions of the thesis: i.e. what is the relation of the metafictive picture book to the form in general?; why is such a highly self-conscious, reflexive form of text found in picture books for young children?; and how do young childre...
Picture books are an important source of new language, concepts, and lessons for young children. A l...
I challenge the notion of an accusative child/ children from within its locative constructions throu...
[[abstract]]To understand the response of children of diverse ages on fantastic picture books, two b...
The thesis is about picture books and how children read them, and is divided into three parts. In pa...
AbstractThe article draws on recent research into emergent literacy and metacognition, and charts a ...
abstract: This article explores a variety of contemporary picturebooks that offer the picturebook as...
SIGLEAvailable from British Library Document Supply Centre-DSC:DXN005177 / BLDSC - British Library D...
This paper notes the ways in which conventional texts often construct limited reading positions and/...
This study, through reflective practice, provides an original contribution to the field of the appl...
Postmodernism has played a significant part in the development of playful and experimental picturebo...
This thesis traces the influence of postmodernism on picturebooks. Through a review of current schol...
The master's thesis is comprised of a theoretical and an empirical part. The theoretical part first ...
Children’s picture books are anything but neutral. As culture moves ahead, technology within society...
This article focuses on fantasy in literature for early childhood to show when and how this genre un...
Children's responses to picture books are documented through this qualitative research involving a c...
Picture books are an important source of new language, concepts, and lessons for young children. A l...
I challenge the notion of an accusative child/ children from within its locative constructions throu...
[[abstract]]To understand the response of children of diverse ages on fantastic picture books, two b...
The thesis is about picture books and how children read them, and is divided into three parts. In pa...
AbstractThe article draws on recent research into emergent literacy and metacognition, and charts a ...
abstract: This article explores a variety of contemporary picturebooks that offer the picturebook as...
SIGLEAvailable from British Library Document Supply Centre-DSC:DXN005177 / BLDSC - British Library D...
This paper notes the ways in which conventional texts often construct limited reading positions and/...
This study, through reflective practice, provides an original contribution to the field of the appl...
Postmodernism has played a significant part in the development of playful and experimental picturebo...
This thesis traces the influence of postmodernism on picturebooks. Through a review of current schol...
The master's thesis is comprised of a theoretical and an empirical part. The theoretical part first ...
Children’s picture books are anything but neutral. As culture moves ahead, technology within society...
This article focuses on fantasy in literature for early childhood to show when and how this genre un...
Children's responses to picture books are documented through this qualitative research involving a c...
Picture books are an important source of new language, concepts, and lessons for young children. A l...
I challenge the notion of an accusative child/ children from within its locative constructions throu...
[[abstract]]To understand the response of children of diverse ages on fantastic picture books, two b...