More Words about Pictures: Current Research on Picture Books and Visual/Verbal Texts for Young People ed. by Naomi Hamer, Perry Nodelman, and Mavis Reimer (review)

In seeming response, Nina Christensen's "Between Picture Book and Graphic Novel: Mixed Signals in Kim Fupz Aakeson and Rasmus Bregnhoi's I Love You Danmark" attends to works that "combine elements from traditional picture books for younger children and elements from comics o...

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Published in:Children's Literature Association Quarterly 2018-07, Vol.43 (2), p.210-212
Main Author: Phillips, Anne K
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Burnett, Frances Hodgson (1849-1924)
Children
Children & youth
Childrens literature
Childrens picture books
Ecocriticism
Essays
Graphic novels
Heroism & heroes
Hopper, Edward
Literary criticism
Literature
Manga
Narrative techniques
Narratives
Picture books
Readers
Refugees
Silverstein, Shel
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Summary:In seeming response, Nina Christensen's "Between Picture Book and Graphic Novel: Mixed Signals in Kim Fupz Aakeson and Rasmus Bregnhoi's I Love You Danmark" attends to works that "combine elements from traditional picture books for younger children and elements from comics or graphic novels" (155), ensuring that some attention is paid to comics and to the relationship between comics, picture books, and graphic novels, even as she suggests that these media may have more in common than Nodelman imagines. Several chapters expand the horizons of More Words about Pictures, including Christensen's essay (which addresses the pictorial qualities of a refugee's experience), but also Moebius's analyses of European picture books; Erica Hateley's contextualizing of an Australian classic; Hamer's cataloging of picture book apps from Canada, the US, and the UK; and Torsten Janson's survey of publications by the England-based Islamic Foundation, among others. The selections in the volume are perhaps more attentive to racial and ethnic diversity than they are to issues of class and privilege, but they also address or at least ask significant questions about the role of picture books in ecocriticism (in Nathalie op de Beeck's incisive and cautionary "Environmental Picture Books") and, to some extent, in social justice movements (in, for example, Hateley's and Janson's contributions).
ISSN:0885-0429
1553-1201
1553-1201
DOI:10.1353/chq.2018.0022