Stories, Pictures and Reality : Two Children Tell (Paperback)

Foreword. Preface. Acknowledgements. List of Illustrations 1. ‘Is this a Real Story?’: The Study and its Methodology 2. ‘The Books we’ve had Forever’: The Environment, the Books, the Children 3. ‘More Book’: Infant Book Behaviour 4. ‘This One’s Exotic and not Real Too!’: What is Real, What is Pretend? 5. ‘He’s Looking the Wrong Way!’: Picture Conventions 6. ‘The Man who Drawed it was Wrong’: Authorship, the Illustrator’s Role and Artistic Style 7. ‘A’Course I can, Read-Maker’: The Concept of Author and Ideology 8. ‘Did he Ever Think Again?’: Characters, Emotions and the Theory of Mind 9. ‘I’m Tigger Pretending to be Eeyore’: Identification and Reality 10. ‘It was a Joke Because it Couldn’t Really Happen’: Humour and Irony 11. ‘But the Words say it’: Conclusion. Afterword. Appendix ? Children’s Books by Title. Bibliography. Index