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 anddevelopment 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 - theirrelations to other forms such as comics and visual media;











• Domains and theoretical approaches, including developmental psychology and cognitive studies;











• Adaptations.

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