Postmodern Picturebooks : Play, Parody, and Self-referentiality (Hardcover)

Introduction: Postmodernism and Picturebooks Sylvia Pantaleo and Lawrence R. Sipe. 1. What is a Picturebook, Anyway? The Evolution of Form and Substance Through the Postmodern Era and Beyond Barbara Kiefer 2. The Artist and the Postmodern Picturebook Martin Salisbury 3. Radical Change Theory, Postmodernism and Contemporary Picturebooks Eliza T. Dresang 4. Play and Playfulness in Postmodern Picturebooks Maria Nikolajeva 5. Postmodern Picturebooks and the Transmodern Self Karen Coats 6. “They are Always Surprised at What People Throw Away”: Glocal Postmodernism in Australian Picturebooks John Stephens 7. Postmodern Picturebooks and the Material Conditions of Reading Margaret Mackey 8. The Paradox of Space in Postmodern Picturebooks Bette Goldstone 9. Imagination and Multimodality: Reading, Picturebooks, and Anxieties about Childhood Christine Hall 10. Postmodern Picturebook as Artefact: Developing Tools for an Archaeological Dig Michele Anstey11.Lauren Child: Utterly and Absolutely Exceptionordinarily Susan Lehr 12. Would I Lie to You?: Metalepsis and Modal Disruption in Some “True” Fairy Tales Robyn McCallum 13. “It Doesn't Say How?”: Third Graders’ Collaborative Sense-making from Postmodern Picturebooks Caroline McGuire, Monica Belfatti, and Maria Ghiso 14. The Voices Behind the Pictures: Children Responding to Postmodern PicturebooksEvelyn Arizpe and Morag Styles with Kate Cowan, Louiza Mallouri &Mary Anne Wolpert 15. First-Graders Interpret David Wiesner’s The Three Pigs: A Case Study Lawrence R. Sipe 16.Ed Vere’s The Getaway: Starring a Postmodern Cheese Thief Sylvia Pantaleo. Editor and Contributor Biographies. Index.