Words about Pictures: The Narrative Art of Children's Picture Books

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University of Georgia Press, Aug 1, 1990 - Literary Criticism - 318 pages
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Contents

Pictures Picture Books and the Implied Viewer
1
Style as Meaning
77
The Contextual Meanings
101
The Relationships
125
The Relationships of Pictures and Words
193
Subjectivity and Objectivity
222
The Rhythms of PictureBook Narrative
242
The Unguarded Face
277
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Perry Nodelman is a professor of English at the University of Winnipeg. He is the author of The Pleasures of Children's Literature, an introduction to literary and theoretical approaches to children's literature recently released in a new third edition written in collaboration with Mavis Reimer. He has also published three novels for young adults and, in collaboration with Carol Matas, the young adult Fantasies in the Minds series.

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