Exploring books for children: words and pictures
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Contents

  • Introduction
  • Learning outcomes
  • 1 Words and pictures in children’s fiction through the ages
  • 2 Making sense of pictures
  • 3 Combining words and pictures
  • 4 Book design and intended readership
    • 4.1 Appealing to different age groups
    • 4.2 Clues for readers of different ages and genders
    • 4.3 Marketing to different readerships
  • 5 Illustration
  • 6 Illustration as interpretation: the example of Alice
    • 6.1 Interpreting Alice
  • 7 Analysing images: composition and symbolism
    • 7.1 Decoding pictures
  • 8 An authorstrator comments on his craft
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Acknowledgements

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