Materiality in Picturebooks: An Introduction

An introduction of Libri & Liber\u27s first guest editor Ilgım Veryeri Alaca to the magazine\u27s special issue. Veryeri explains the idea of the special issue and gives more details of individual contributions. The authors scrutinise the changing materialities of contemporary picturebooks and how they influence reading practices and alter the way children read, handle, and attend to their books. When materiality adds a multimodal element to picturebooks, reading becomes fluid and playful, endowing the text and images with deeper meaning through additional modes of expression. On the whole, this special issue aims to capture the evolving understanding of materiality as used in picturebooks at a moment in time