New Directions in Picturebook Research

List of Figures Series Editor's Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction: Current Trends in Picturebook Research, Teresa Colomer, Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer, Cecilia Silva-Díaz Part I: Picturebooks, Literacy, and Cultural Context 1: Words Claimed: Picturebook Narratives and the Project of Children's Literature, Perry Nodelman 2: Interpretative Codes and Implied Readers of Children's Picturebooks, Maria Nikolajeva 3: Picturebooks and Changing Values at the Turn of the Century, Teresa Colomer 4: How to Make Sense: Reflections on the Influence of Eighteenth Century Picturebooks on Picturebooks of Today, Nina Christensen 5: "All this book is about books": Picturebooks, Culture and Metaliterary Awareness, Evelyn Arizpe 6: Artistic Allusions in Picturebooks, Sandra Beckett Part II: Picturebooks and Storytelling 7: Frame-making and Frame-breaking in Picturebooks, Carole Scott 8: Surprised Readers: Twist Endings in Narrative Picturebooks, Brenda Bellorín and Cecilia Silva-Díaz 9: The Narrative Power of Pictures: L'Orage (The Thunderstorm) by Anne Brouillard, Isabelle Nières-Chevrel 10: Picturebooks and Trojan Horses: The Nordic Picturebook as a Site for Artistic Experiment during the 1950s, Elina Druker 11: A Strawberry? Or the Planet?: Children's Aesthetic Response to the Picturebook Strawberries by Susumi Shingu, Moving Art Sculptor, Tomoko Masaki 12: Off-Screen: The Importance of Blank Space, Fernando Zaparaín-Hernández Part III: Making Sense Out of Picturebooks 13: Being a Guide into Picturebook Literacy: Challenges of Cognition and Connotation, Ingeborg Mjør 14: First-Person Narratives in Picturebooks: An Inquiry into the Acquisition of Picturebook Competence, Eva Gressnich and Jörg Meibauer 15: Remembering the Past in Words and Pictures: How Autobiographical Stories Become Picturebooks, Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer 16: Do Sons Inherit the Sins of Their Fathers? An Analysis of the Picturebook Angry Man, Agnes-Margrethe Bjorvand 17: Imagination or Reality? Mindscapes and Characterization in a Finnish and a Swedish