Talking Beyond the Page - 9780415476966

For teachers, literacy consultants, and others, Evans (education, Liverpool Hope U., UK) brings together 10 chapters that explore the complex responses of children to different kinds of picturebooks. Education, children's literature, and literacy scholars from the UK, Australia, the US, and Canada consider aspects that enable the reader to explore, interpret, and make sense of the text, and how readers understand visual images and respond to the text, how the endpapers can be used to determine what a picturebook is about, and how the frames used by illustrators affect the way images are viewed. Subsequent chapters examine responses to books as art forms, immigrant children's responses, and how children develop different understandings through picturebooks. An interview with author illustrator Anthony Browne is included. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)