Reading Visual Narratives: Image Analysis of Children's Picture Books

by Clare Painter, J.R. Martin, Len Unsworth

Book Overview

Contemporary children's 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 children's earliest literature. Reading Visual Narratives...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1781791015
• ISBN13: 9781781791011
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Equinox Publishing
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"