<strong>How Picturebooks Work</strong> is an innovative and engaging look at the interplaybetween text and image in picturebooks. The authors explore pictureboo... » 

How Picturebooks Work is an innovative and engaging look at the interplaybetween text and image in picturebooks. The authors explore picturebooks as aspecific medium or genre in literature and culture one that prepares childrenfor other media of communication and they argue that picturebooks may be themost influential media of all in the socialization and representation ofchildren. Spanning an international range of childrens books this bookexamine such favorites as Curious George and Frog and Toad Are Friends alongwith the works of authors and illustrators including Maurice Sendak and ToveJansson among others. With 116 illustrations How Picturebooks Work offers thestudent of childrens literature a new methodology new theories and a new setof critical tools for examining the picturebook form. «