The Routledge Companion to Picturebooks

Containing forty-eight chapters, The Routledge Companion to Picturebooks is the ultimate guide to picturebooks. It contains a detailed introduction, surveying the history and development of the field and emphasizing the international and cultural diversity of picturebooks. Divided into five key parts, this volume covers: - Concepts and topics - from hybridity and ideology to metafiction and emotions; - Genres - from baby books through to picturebooks for adults; - Interfaces - their relations to other forms such as comics and visual media; - Domains and theoretical approaches, including developmental psychology and cognitive studies; - Adaptations. With ground-breaking contributions from leading and emerging scholars alike, this comprehensive volume is one of the first to focus solely on picturebook research. Its interdisciplinary approach makes it key for both scholars and students of literature, as well as education and media.

Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer is Professor in the German Department at the University of Tübingen, Germany. She recently co-edited Learning from Picturebooks: Perspectives from Child Development and Literacy Studies (Routledge, 2015).

Introduction: picturebook research as an international and interdisciplinary field (Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer) PART I: Concepts and topics 1. Author-illustrator (Kerry Mallan) 2. Picture-text relationships in picturebooks (Nathalie op de Beeck) 3. Picturebooks and page layout (Megan Lambert) 4. Paratexts in picturebooks (Sylvia Pantaleo) 5. Collage and montage in picturebooks (Elina Druker) 6. Materiality in picturebooks (Ilgim Veryeri Alaca) 7. Picturebooks and metafiction (Cecilia Silva-Díaz) 8. Hybridity in picturebooks (Helma van Lierop-Debrauwer) 9. Interpictoriality in picturebooks (Beatriz Hoster Cabo, Maria José Lobato Suero, and Alberto Manuel Ruiz Campos) 10. Seriality in picturebooks (Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer) 11. Emotions in picturebooks (Maria Nikolajeva) 12. Gender in picturebooks (Karen Coats) 13. Canon processes and picturebooks (Erica Hateley) 14. Picturebooks and ideology (John Stephens) PART II: Picturebook categories 15. Early-concept books and concept books (Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer and Jörg Meibauer) 16. Wimmelbooks (Cornelia Rémi) 17. ABC books (Marie-Pierre Litaudon) 18. Pop-up and movable books (Ann Montanaro Staples) 19. Wordless picturebooks (Emma Bosch) 20. Postmodern picturebooks (Cherie Allan) 21. Crossover picturebooks (Sandra Beckett) 22. Picturebooks for adults (Åse Marie Ommundsen) 23. Informational picturebooks (Nikola von Merveldt) 24. Poetry in picturebooks (Donelle Ruwe) 25. Multilingual picturebooks (Nancy Hadaway and Terrell Young) 26. Digital picturebooks (Ghada Al-Yaquot and Maria Nikolajeva) PART III: Interfaces 27. Picturebooks and illustrated books (Elizabeth Bird and Junko Yokota) 28. Artists' books and picturebooks (Johanna Drucker) 29. Picturebooks and photography (Jane Wattenberg) 30. Picturebooks and comics (Lara Saguisag) 31. Picturebooks and movies (Tobias Kurwinkel) PART IV: Domains 32. The education of a picturebook-maker (Martin Salisbury) 33. Research in picturebooks: the wider path (William Moebius) 34. Picturebooks and representations of childhood (Nina Christensen) 35. Picturebooks and literacy studies (Evelyn Arizpe, Jennifer Farrar, and Julie McAdam) 36. Picturebooks and developmental psychology (Elaine Reese and Jessica Johnston) 37. Picturebooks and cognitive studies (Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer and Jörg Meibauer) 38. Picturebooks and linguistics (Eva Gressnich) 39. Picturebooks and narratology (Smiljana Narancic Kovac) 40. Multimodal analysis of picturebooks (Clare Painter) 41. Art history and the picturebook (Marilynn Olson) 42. Picture theory and picturebooks (Lukas Wilde and Nikolas Potysch) 43. Picturebooks and media studies (Margaret Mackey) 44. Picturebooks and translation (Riitta Oittinen) PART V: Adaptations and remediation 45. Picturebooks as adaptations of fairy tales (Vanessa Joosen) 46. Picturebooks as adaptations of world literature (Marlene Zöhrer) 47. Film versions of picturebooks (Johanna Tydecks) 48. Picturebooks, merchandising, and franchising (Naomi Hamer)