Children's picturebooks : the art of visual storytelling

Children's picturebooks : the art of visual storytelling / Martin Salisbury with Morag Styles.

"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 o...

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Main Authors: Salisbury, Martin (Author), Styles, Morag (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Laurence King Publishing, 2020.
Edition:Second edition.
Subjects:
Picture books for children > Authorship.
Picture books for children > History.
Illustration of books.
Children's literature > Illustrations.
Illustrated children's books.
Picture books for children.
Children's literature.
Illustrated works.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • 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 picturebook 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.

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