Children's picturebooks: the art of visual storytelling

A brief history of the picturebook

The picturebook maker's art

The picturebook and the child

Word and image, word as image

Suitable for children?

Print and process : the shock of the old

The children's publishing industry.

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.