Postmodern Picturebooks Play, Parody, and Self-Referentiality [Hardcover]

Over the past 15 years, there has been a pronounced trend toward a particular type of picturebook that many would label postmodern. Postmodern picturebooks have stretched our conventional notion of what constitutes a picturebook, as well as what it means to be an engaged reader of these texts. The international researchers and scholars included in this compelling collection of work critically examine and discuss postmodern picturebooks, and reflect upon their unique contributions to both the field of childrens literature and to the development of new literacies for child, adolescent, and adult readers.

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 Mich?le Anstey  11. Lauren Child: Utterly and Absolutely ExceptionordinarilySusan Lehr  12. Would I Lie to You?:lï