The important books : children's picture books as art and literature

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    • Stanton, Joseph
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The important books : children's picture books as art and literature

Joseph Stanton

Scarecrow Press, 2005

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references

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内容説明

The children's picture book is an important form of literary-visual art. In this volume, Joseph Stanton disposes of some of the assumptions that have tended to obscure this genre's achievements. While focusing on those books that are distinguished by some degree of originality in both word and image, the author points out that the importance of picture books is not primarily pedagogical-they are not intended to serve as "dumbed down" versions of young adult or adult novels-and the audience for these great books is not solely children. Because the children's picture book is designed to provide the context for an intimate transaction involving the imaginations of both parent and child, there is a social value to the form that lends a special poignancy to the pleasure it provides. The Important Books takes a look at some of the most significant and talked about authors, illustrators, and titles in the genre, including Maurice Sendak, Margaret Wise Brown, William Joyce, and Chris Van Allsburg.

目次

Part 1 Acknowledgments Chapter 2 1. Introduction Chapter 3 2. "Goodnight Nobody": Comfort and the Vast Dark in the Picture-Poems of Margaret Wise Brown and Her Collaborators Chapter 4 3. Straight Man and Clown in the Picture Books of Arnold Lobel Chapter 5 4. The Cycle of the Seasons in Hall and Cooney's Ox-Cart Man Chapter 6 5. The New York City Picture Books of Maurice Sendak Chapter 7 6. Dashing Heroes and Eccentric Families in William Joyce's Picture Sagas of Our Common Culture Chapter 8 7. Surrealism and the Strange Tale in the Picture Books of Chris Van Allsburg

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