Children Reading Pictures: New Contexts and Approaches to Picturebooks offers up-to-date research evidence on the responses of the primary audience for picturebooks children.
Children Reading Pictures: New Contexts and Approaches to Picturebooks offers up-to-date research evidence on the responses of the primary audience for picturebooks children. The new edition has retained the best of the original while expanding its scope in several directions, including the role of the art museum in helping children and their teachers to broaden and deepen their appreciation of the visual, and the significance of understanding diversity and inclusion while looking at illustrations in picturebooks, in digital form and in the art museum. In particular, the third edition:
- uses new case studies to bring to life exciting initiatives from teachers and art museum educators in the UK and beyond, examining the potential of picturebooks for overcoming cultural, educational, linguistic and other barriers in the classroom and in other settings;
- continues to draw readers attention to significant international theoretical work in the field and provides structured advice for teachers and graduate students who wish to carry out their own research;
- focuses on new research with pupils, teachers, art educators and researchers working on young peoples responses to a variety of visual texts, including digital forms and fine art, and through childrens own artistic creations, to develop a more nuanced understanding of visual literacy;
- celebrates the glorious variety of outstanding picturebooks and their makers who offer rich challenge, amusement, pleasure and consolation to young readers in a changing, often troubling world.
Children Reading Pictures
is essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students of education, art and childrens literature, as well as providing important information for primary and early years teachers, literacy coordinators and for all those interested in picturebooks and visual literacy.
Introduction: How texts teach what readers learn: Reasons for a third
edition of Children Reading Pictures Part I: The original study on children
responding to picturebooks
1. The original research and guidelines for
emerging researchers
2. On a walk with Lily and Kitamura: How children link
words and pictures along the way
3. A gorilla with 'grandpas eyes': How
children interpret ironic visual texts a case study of Anthony Brownes Zoo
4. Picturebooks and metaliteracy: Children talking about how they read
pictures
5. Thinking aloud: Looking at children drawing in response to
picturebooks Part II: New developments in research on children responding to
visual texts
6. Young learners looking and making in the art museum and
classroom
7. Psyche, Picnics and Penguin: Case studies of children responding
to visual texts
8. Children reading literary apps
9. Diverse readers, diverse
picturebooks, diverse responses Part III: Research and theory for a better
future
10. Understanding childrens responses to picturebooks through theory
and research
11. Epilogue: What children have taught us about reading
pictures Afterword: Reading is marvellous anywhere
Evelyn Arizpe is Professor of Childrens Literature at the School of Education, University of Glasgow.
Kate Noble is a Senior Research Associate: Museum Learning at the Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge.
Morag Styles is Emeritus Professor of Childrens Poetry and an Emeritus Fellow of Homerton College, Cambridge.
