About "Postmodern Picturebooks"

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. This compelling collection critically examines and discusses postmodern picturebooks and reflects on their unique contributions to both the field of children's literature and to the development of new literacies for child, adolescent, and adult readers.

The first-ever consideration of this emerging phenomenon, this volume features contributions from an international roster of scholars and researchers from the fields of education, English literature, and the library sciences.

Praise for "Postmodern Picturebooks"
"Listening to the children is essential work. Not just because it inches forward our understanding of literacy learning, but also because it keeps us grounded in the facts of real books and real readers. The world has not really turned upside down, though one small corner of it has, and that in a most decisive and curious fashion. The writers assembled here under the watchful eyes of Sipe and Pantaleo have, on the whole, mapped out this corner pretty thoroughly..."                                 -- David Lewis, Children's Literature Association Quarterly, 2008

Publication Information
Routledge Research in Education
April 2008
Hardcover: ISBN: 978-0-415-96210-0, $95.00     ORDER
280 pages