Clare Painter
Author
Series
Publisher
Equinox
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Paperback edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 186 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Contemporary childrens picture books provide a rich domain for developing theory and analysis of visual meaning and its relation to accompanying verbal text. This book offers new descriptions of the visual strand of meaning in picture book narratives as a way of furthering the project of multimodal discourse analysis and of explaining the literacy demands and apprenticing techniques of childrens earliest literature. The book uses the principles of...