Can a city map be a picturebook? Alternative publishing formats for children

Ramos, Ana Margarida

doi:10.18261/9788215042459-2021-16

Verbal and Visual Strategies in Nonfiction Picturebooks 2021

DOI: 10.18261/9788215042459-2021-16

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Can a city map be a picturebook? Alternative publishing formats for children

Ana Margarida Ramos¹

Abstract: Based on the analysis of maps in children's literature, including picturebooks, this text presents a collection of seven city maps distributed by Pato Lógico, as evidence of an alternative and personal geography. The chapter explores how city maps resemble picturebooks in the way that they create, through text, illustrations, and material support, an emerging narrative about a special place, Keywords picturebooks, nonfiction, maps, cities, travel guides INTRODUCTION. NONFICTIONAL GENRES: MAPS AND PICTUREBOOKS … Show more

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Towards A Literature of Actions: Green Informational Picturebooks and Critical Engagement with Fighting Climate Change

Rybak

2023

Child Lit Educ

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This article investigates selected environmental informational picturebooks in which – often in both the main text and the peritext – readers find brief descriptions of actions they can take to change their habits and save the planet. The analysis focuses on lists of tasks incorporated into books and considers whether such sections (and, potentially, whole books) invite critical engagement. This ability seems crucial in times of fake news and the need for conscious action and political engagement in climate issues. In the first part, the theoretical framework on informational picturebooks is presented, and the importance of peritextual elements is stressed, as well as the critical thinking that may be fostered by a nonfiction text, referring to Joe Sutliff Sanders’ concept of “a literature of questions” (date?). Four international picturebooks are then discussed, representing both ‘traditional’ (Müll by Gerda Raidt and Śmieciogród by Ola Woldańska-Płocińska) and ‘new’ children’s nonfiction (Be a Tree! by Maria Gianferrari and Felicita Sala and Greta and the Giants by Zoë Tucker and Zoe Persico). The analysis demonstrates that green informational picturebooks may be perceived as both eco-activist books and books about eco-activism as they present certain tasks and encourage the readers to take actions; hence, the term “a literature of actions” has been proposed, as these books seem to trigger little critical thinking. The reason green informational picturebooks are unlikely to foster critical engagement may be that fighting the climate crisis is crucial to ensure humanity’s future wellbeing.

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Towards A Literature of Actions: Green Informational Picturebooks and Critical Engagement with Fighting Climate Change

Rybak

2023

Child Lit Educ

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How Informational Activity Picturebooks Work: Interactive Invitation to a Critical Approach to Knowledge

Rybak¹

2022

Intl Research in Children's Literature

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This article proposes a typology useful for analysing informational activity picturebooks, a noticeable ‘genre’ in the international children’s book market. Because such editions indicate the active role of the child reader, the term ‘co-creator’ borrowed from Nina Goga seems more accurate. In the first part, the article stresses the importance of the peritext, often explicitly focusing on the co-creator. The latter part defines and elaborates on different modes and levels of interaction, engaging the co-creator manually and intellectually, simultaneously requiring and developing cognitive skills, such as visual literacy and knowledge acquisition.

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Can a city map be a picturebook? Alternative publishing formats for children

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Towards A Literature of Actions: Green Informational Picturebooks and Critical Engagement with Fighting Climate Change

Towards A Literature of Actions: Green Informational Picturebooks and Critical Engagement with Fighting Climate Change

How Informational Activity Picturebooks Work: Interactive Invitation to a Critical Approach to Knowledge

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