Building Children’s Worlds : The Representation of Architecture and Modernity in Picturebooks (Paperback)

Introduction Torsten Schmiedeknecht, Jill Rudd, Emma Hayward Part 1: Modernity 1.Building for the future: Children as future citizens in Swedish Picturebooks of the 1930s　 Elina Druker 2. A Modern Utopia: Architecture, Modernity and Ladybird Books in postwar Britain Torsten Schmiedeknecht and Jill Rudd 3. Reading as Building: Modernist Architecture and Book Space in Picturebooks Honglan Huang 4. Representations of modern architecture and urbanism in Colombian children's literature from the mid-20th century onwards Carolina Rodriguez, Roberto London?o, Antonio Manrique Part 2: Domestic Space 5. Domestic Architecture and Environmental Design in Australian Picture Books John Stephens 6. The house, where everything begins Christophe Meunier 7. Architecture and Interior Design in Italian Picturebooks: A case study of Bruno Munari Marnie Campagnaro 8. Representations of architecture in children’s picture books in Australia, Singapore and China　 Sabine Tan, Xinchao Zhai, Lyndon Way and Kay L. O’Halloran 9. Building Diversity in British and American Children’s Picturebooks (2000-present) Emma Hayward Part 3: Urban Space 10. Highly Modern Ideal Homestead Lucie Glasheen 11. Architecture and Magic: Mapping the London of Children’s Fantasy Fiction Madison McLeod 12. Ordinary cityscapes and architecture in Jorg Muller’s picturebook oeuvre Jorg Meibauer