Children's picturebooks : the art of visual storytelling /
Salisbury, Martin,author.
Styles, Morag,author.
"Children's picturebooks are the very first books we encounter and play a major role in introducing us to both art and language. But what does it take to create a successful picturebook for children? This revised edition carries invaluable insight into a highly productive, dynamic sector of the publishing world. Featuring interviews with leading illustrators and publishers from across the globe, it remains essential reading for students, aspiring picturebook-makers, writers and children's literature scholars." --
Previous edition: 2012.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Chapter 1: A brief history of the picturebook. The printing of books from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century -- Colour printing in the nineteenth century -- The birth of the modern picutrebook in the late nineteenth century -- From the golden age of illustration -- The 1930s -- Puffin Picture Books, autolithography and the European influence -- The postwar years -- The 1950s and visual thinking -- The colourful 1960s -- The 1970s onwards -- Picturebooks in the twenty-first century -- Chapter 2: The picturebook maker's art. Picturebooks as works of art -- Education and training -- The picturebook artist -- Learning to see -- Thinking through drawing -- Visual communication -- Professional case study: Giving the audience space (Jon Klassen) -- Professional case study: Sense of place (Sydney Smith - Town is by the Sea) -- Professional case study: The innocent eye (Beatrice Alemagna - On a Magical Do-Nothing Day) -- Student case study: Two wordless books ( Ya-Ling Huang - The Day After Yesterday and Ye-seul Cho - Loners) -- Chapter 3: The picturebook and the child. Preamble / Morag Styles -- The challenges offered by picturebooks -- Defining visual literacy -- Visual texts and educational development -- How children respond to picturebooks -- Responding to word-image interaction -- Analyzing colour for significance -- Reading body language -- Reading visual metaphors -- Rising to the challenges offered by picturebooks -- Looking and learning -- Chapter 4: Word and image, word as image. Theorizing picturebooks -- Word and image interplay -- Filling in the gaps -- Counterpoint and duet -- Wordless books and graphic novels -- Pictorial text -- Professional case study: Book arts meet commercial publishing through typographic landscapes (Sam Winston and Oliver Jeffers - A Child of Books) -- Professional case study: The return of pattern (Melissa Castrillón - Un Silenzio Perfetto) -- Chapter 5: Suitable for children? Violence -- Love and sex -- Death and sadness -- Man's inhumanity to man -- Professional case study: Migration (Francesca Sanna - The Journey) -- Student case study: political allegory (Emily Haworth-Booth - The King Who Banned the Dark) -- The 'retro' picturebook -- Chapter 6: Print and process: The shock of the old. The print room -- Relief printing -- Screen-printing -- Etching/intaglio -- Lithography -- Monotype and monoprint -- Digital printmaking -- Professional case study: Print pioneer (Blexbolex) -- Professional case study: The digital assemblage 'puzzle' (Anuska Allepuz) -- Student case study: Experimental narrative sequence in monotype (Yann Kebbi) --  Student case study: Air and light through monoprint (Beth Waters - A Child of St Kilda) -- Chapter 7: Non-fiction. Narrative approaches -- Strong women -- BIG books and Wimmelbücher -- Novelty and interaction -- Professional case study: New non-fiction publishing (Rachel Williams, Wide Eyed Editions) -- Professional case study: Natural history illustration (Narisa Togo - Magnificent Birds) -- Chapter 8: The children's publishing industry. The publishing process -- Approaching a publisher -- The literary agent -- Contracts and fees -- The editorial process -- The designer -- The Bologna Children's Book Fair -- Printing -- Distribution -- Sales and marketing -- Booksellers -- The reviewer -- Professional case study: The art publisher (Roger Thorpe, Thames and Hudson) -- Professional case study: Growing a publishing business (Claudia Bedrick, Enchanted Lion Books) -- Professional case study: The new 'studio publishers' (Pato Lógico, Planeta Tangerina and Magikon) -- From page to stage, screen and gallery -- Digital content -- The future.
"Children's picturebooks are the very first books we encounter and play a major role in introducing us to both art and language. But what does it take to create a successful picturebook for children? This revised edition carries invaluable insight into a highly productive, dynamic sector of the publishing world. Featuring interviews with leading illustrators and publishers from across the globe, it remains essential reading for students, aspiring picturebook-makers, writers and children's literature scholars." --
Picture books for children
Picture books for children
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Children's literature
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