scholarly journals L’abito immaginato. Abbigliamento e identità nell’albo illustrato moderno

2020 ◽  
pp. 160
Author(s):  
Claudia Pazzini
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Picture Books ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Picture Book ◽  
Social Model ◽  
Children's Picture Books ◽  
Dynamic Relationship ◽  
Self Discovery ◽  
The Many ◽  
The One

The essay focuses on the examination of a selection of children’s picture books on the theme of clothing as an element of identity and as a means of personal and social transformation. The gender stereotype has always deprived children of the freedom to imagine themselves different from the imposed social model. Modern quality literature aims to free childhood from these constraints through stories that encourage the free expression of one's personality. "Clothing and childhood" is one of the binomial in which these themes appear most evident. While developing different plots, each selected book tells a story enriched by several levels of reading, more or less evident, and this is also due to particularly accurate illustrations, capable of adding further nuances to the text. Furthermore, even if characterized by the symbolic presence of clothes,  these picture books do not make them the narrative fulcrum. In each of these case studies, clothing becomes a pretext for a journey of self-discovery and affirmation of one's individuality in the world. These case studies are a concrete example of the potential of the picture book as a vehicle of complex concepts and stratifications of complementary or parallel meanings that emerge from the dynamic relationship of the text with the image. Each double page opens multiple, free interpretative paths that can be taken at each reading, as the eye catches new aspects and the thought opens up to new discoveries. The imaginary dress is therefore one of the many parallel topics that it was possible to address through these books, with which the possible interpretations of clothing in children's literature have been explored, highlighting above all how much garments are objects charged with metasignification or with projections of a identity in formation such as the one of children.

scholarly journals Gender Representation in Perpustakaan Intan

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 243
Author(s):  
Riskia Setiarini ◽  
Supiastutik Supiastutik ◽  
Dina Dyah Kusumayanti ◽  
Hadi Sampurna ◽  
Erna Cahyawati
Keyword(s):  
Picture Books ◽  
Picture Book ◽  
The Other ◽  
Gender Representation ◽  
Children's Picture Books ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
Multimodality Approach

There is little research on gender-related children's picture books in Indonesia. In this article, we discuss the disclosure of gender representation in a picture book entitled Perpustakaan Intan. The high number appearances of women, the actions pinned on women, and the clothes displayed in both text and images are materials for visualizing women and men. Previous studies have revealed that men dominate the number of appearances in books. However, this book displays women more often than men. On the one hand, this raises the question of whether this means women are in power, and on the other hand, men are portrayed as powerless. Utilizing the multimodality approach, the results show that although women appear more in the narrative, women are still represented as less powerful.

scholarly journals Commentary: Writing Picture Books

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-60
Author(s):  
Jane Yolen
Keyword(s):  
Picture Books ◽  
Picture Book ◽  
Final Version ◽  
Long Period ◽  
Children's Picture Books ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Many ◽  
Jane Yolen

In this interview Jane Yolen, award-winning author of children’s picture books, talks of how her books come into being and the sometimes long period between the first spark of an idea and the time writing begins. She explains the many types of research that can be required for different types of books, giving examples from her own work. She also provides insight as to the role of the writer, the illustrator and the editor in creating the final version of a children’s picture book. Finally, she reveals her own favourite children’s picture books and gives advice to those wishing to write in this genre.

scholarly journals Differences in sentence complexity in the text of children’s picture books and child-directed speech

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (5) ◽  
pp. 527-546 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica L. Montag
Keyword(s):  
Picture Books ◽  
Picture Book ◽  
Book Reading ◽  
Language Outcomes ◽  
Complex Sentence ◽  
Children's Picture Books ◽  
Causal Pathways ◽  
Important Means ◽  
Syntactic Differences ◽  
Picture Book Reading

Reading picture books to pre-literate children is associated with improved language outcomes, but the causal pathways of this relationship are not well understood. The present analyses focus on several syntactic differences between the text of children’s picture books and typical child-directed speech, with the aim of understanding ways in which picture book text may systematically differ from typical child-directed speech. The analyses show that picture books contain more rare and complex sentence types, including passive sentences and sentences containing relative clauses, than does child-directed speech. These differences in the patterns of language contained in picture books and typical child-directed speech suggest that one important means by which picture book reading may come to be associated with improved language outcomes is by providing children with types of complex language that might be otherwise rare in their input.

scholarly journals REVOLUTION OR DIVERSITY? AESTHETIC AND POLITICAL MANIFESTATIONS OF CLASS IN THREE SWEDISH RADICAL PICTUREBOOKS FROM THE 2000S AND 2010S

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (60) ◽  
pp. 92-115
Author(s):  
Kristina Hermansson
Keyword(s):  
Picture Books ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Political ◽  
Scholarly Writing ◽  
Class Differences ◽  
Anal Ysis ◽  
Children's Picture Books ◽  
Selection Of

This article explores manifestations of class from a combined aesthetical and political point of view, focusing on a selection of Swedish children’s picture books from 2009 to 2018, in which class differences are made prominent. In this sense, they can be regarded as radical. This study examines how political aspects are intertwined with literary, visual, and multimodal means. The main purpose is to examine how the political and aesthetical merge in the manifestations of class. The publishing of radical picture books during the 2000s and 2010s coincided with a rise of norm-criti-cal discourse, including a strong emphasis on diversity rather than on social transformation. The books, I argue, do not depict radical change on a collective level, but uses various aesthetic means in their manifestations of class and inequality. Theoretically, the anal-ysis mainly draws on Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of capital (1984), and Beverley Skeggs’s (1997) reasoning on class by adding the con-cept of respectability, as well as picturebook theory, and scholarly writing on radical picturebooks.

A Study of the Design Aesthetics of Picture Book Creation Using Mixed Media

2014 ◽  
Vol 496-500 ◽  
pp. 2799-2802
Author(s):  
Rui Lin Lin
Keyword(s):  
Computer Graphics ◽  
Picture Books ◽  
Picture Book ◽  
Mixed Media ◽  
Innovative Technology ◽  
Basic Design ◽  
Research Subjects ◽  
The One ◽  
Lop Ears ◽  
Oral Presentations

The learning topic of this study was the creative designs of picture books in the basic design curriculum. The research subjects were the students from the Department of Commercial Design of a technology university. Hand drawings were combined with computer graphics to perform the image art designs using mixed media of innovative technology, to explore the achievements of applying the innovative technology methods in aesthetics education. During the process of creating works, the teachers and the students had continuously discussed and made modifications. Finally, the students were asked to present their works through oral presentations. The scores were given by two professional design teachers. Among all the works, the picture book titled Lop was the one with the best performance. The story was that the leading characters ears were too long, causing a lot of inconvenience. He was even mocked at by his friends. Thus, he hated his own ears a lot. However, in an accident, he unexpectedly found the advantage of his lop ears and learned to accept himself. The images of this picture book were colorful while still friendly and sincere, properly presenting the scenes in the story, helping children to develop the concept of loving both others and themselves.

scholarly journals Talking with Children About Cancer: A Content Analysis of Text in Children's Picture Books

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noyuri Yamaji ◽  
Megumi Sawaguchi ◽  
Erika Ota
Keyword(s):  
Picture Books ◽  
Web Site ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Picture Book ◽  
Stressful Events ◽  
Communication Tool ◽  
Plain Language ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Children's Picture Books ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Background To tell children that they are diagnosed with cancer is challenging for any healthcare professional and family. Pictures books are one of the communication tools for talking with children about severe diseases. However, little research is available about the contents and appropriateness of picture books about cancer for children. Methods This study aimed to examine the contents of children's picture books about cancer and explore the advantages and disadvantages of using picture books to communicate with children about cancer. We searched the picture books about cancer written for children aged under ten years old on the Amazon.com Web site on 5 July 2019 and hand-searched on the cancer-related institutes' Web site. We extracted the texts of relevant picture books and conducted a contents analysis of them. Two researchers independently coded the patterns and contents and calculated the agreement between the codings of two researchers using Cohen's kappa coefficient. Results We identified 2,555 picture books and included 30 of them. We identified three main contents, (a) cancer-related knowledge, (b) impacts of cancer, and (c) dealing with cancer. Cancer-related knowledge refers to the information about what is going on and what children have to do. Impacts of cancer refer to the impact of having a child with cancer. Dealing with cancer relates to the actions to reduce or minimize stressful events that had been described. These contents were written with simple words and illustrations. Some of them included the essential contents, which might be misunderstood by children. Conclusions Picture books use plain language with illustrations and might be helpful for children to understand about cancer. However, as these books do not include all contents, it is necessary to select and use multiple books depending on the content which is wanted to tell the child. Moreover, there was no picture book which was developed based on children's information needs and validated. Further research should evaluate the impacts of these books as a communication tool when talking with children diagnosed with cancer.

scholarly journals Mutual Promotion of Reading and Expression: Research into Children’s Picture Book Teaching of I Wanna Iguana

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing Xiang ◽  
Ying Yan
Keyword(s):  
Picture Books ◽  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Picture Book ◽  
Story Line ◽  
Teaching Culture ◽  
Story Retelling ◽  
Children's Picture Books ◽  
National Memory ◽  
Pictures And Words ◽  
Narrative Function

The narrative function of children’s picture books connects the exquisite, meaningful and colorful paintings with easy and imaginative words. A teaching process, which is called the circulation process, happens when teachers and children are reading the pictures and words repeatedly. This process involves four stages: lead-in, telling the story, retelling the story and utilizing the retold story. Teacher may understand children’s knowledge, cognitive features as well as nature of picture books and paintings effectively. Then the vivid illustration of story line encourages children to think from others’ views and communicate with different people in the world. In such a way, we aim to establish a brand new teaching culture consisted of national memory and traditional Chinese culture elements.

Comics Grammar in Neil Gaiman and Dave Mckean’s Picture Book Collaborations

2019 ◽  
pp. 21-34
Author(s):  
Krystal Howard
Keyword(s):  
Picture Books ◽  
Picture Book ◽  
Young Reader ◽  
Children's Picture Books ◽  
Neil Gaiman ◽  
High Esteem

In this chapter, Howard reflects upon how Gaiman's picture books borrow the grammar of comics in ways that demonstrate his high esteem for the young reader. Howard collapses the critical distinctions between comics and pictures showing how, through their frequent collaboration, Gaiman and McKean use the discourse conventions of comics, where they began, within their children's picture books to straddle a line between lightness and play and darker overtures in a traditionally lighter field of children's picture books. Her conclusions poke holes in the staid critical distinctions in both fields.

scholarly journals Parents of Young Children Select Picture Books Based on Information Not Found in Bibliographic Records

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruby Muriel Lavallee Warren
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Picture Books ◽  
Picture Book ◽  
Public Library ◽  
Book Selection ◽  
Children's Picture Books ◽  
Bibliographic Records ◽  
Bibliographic Data ◽  
Additional Data Collection ◽  
Library Catalogue

A Review of: Švab, K. & Žumer, M. (2015). The value of a library catalog for selecting children's picture books. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 53(7), 717-737. doi: 10.1080/01639374.2015.1044059 Objective – To determine how parents select picture books for their children, and which bibliographic data are important when selecting a specific version of a title with multiple interpretations. Design – Qualitative, with interviews and task-based controlled observational studies. Setting – A public library in Slovenia. Subjects – 36 parents of children between one and 6 years of age. Methods – The researchers recruited parents via convenience sampling in non-library, family-oriented locations (parks, playgrounds, beaches, and others). Participants were all interviewed regarding their methods of picture book selection and their use of library catalogues. Participants were then given six print bibliographic records for copies of Cinderella, available in libraries, and asked to select a book for their child based solely on these records. They were then presented with their selection and interviewed regarding their satisfaction with the book selected and their decision-making process. Finally, the researchers presented participants with all six physical copies of the book that had been represented by bibliographic records, and asked participants to select one of the books for their child. The researchers then interviewed participants regarding what information about the physical books should be included in records to assist in their decision-making. Main Results – Interviews indicated that the majority of participants did not use the library catalogue to select books for their children, and did not expect librarian or bookseller assistance. Many participants expressed browsing behaviours as the primary method of obtaining new picture books, and the strongest criteria for picture book selection among participants were subjective judgements regarding illustrations and content. However, when asked to use just bibliographic records to select a version of Cinderella, most participants selected a title using the author field and year of publication. 67% of participants were then dissatisfied with their selection due to factors such as illustration type, font size, and length or complexity of text. When choosing from all six physical copies, most participants disregarded condition issues and selected the oldest edition, favouring its colourful illustrations and textual length. Conclusions – The authors concluded that illustrations and book content were more important than other factors, including physical condition of the book, and that existing library catalogues were inadequate for picture book selection. They suggested that library catalogues should include further information about picture books, such as cover images, sample pages, book condition, and information about the type of text (whether it is the original, abridged, or an adaptation). They supported this by explaining that participants used the bibliographic fields already available (author, year of publication) to try and guess at what they actually considered important (the aforementioned suggested fields). In addition, they believed that their study indicated that users require a transparent and systematic way to review and compare versions of a given text. Finally, the authors recommended further study using enriched bibliographic records and additional data collection methods, such as focus groups and questionnaires. The authors have several further studies in this area planned.

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