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Index
Cover
Title
Copyright
Dedication
CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
Permissions
Foreword
Notes on contributors
Children’s thoughts on challenging and controversial picturebooks
Adults’ thoughts on challenging and controversial picturebooks
PART I Challenging and controversial picturebooks: What are they and who are they for?
1 Picturebooks as strange, challenging and controversial texts
2 The scandal of the commonplace: The strangeness of best-selling picturebooks
3 From traditional tales, fairy stories, and cautionary tales to controversial visual texts: Do we need to be fearful?
4 Who are these picturebooks for? Controversial picturebooks and the question of audience
PART II Controversy and ambiguity in the art of the visual
5 Fusion texts – the new kid on the block: What are they and where have they come from?
6 ‘These books made me really curious’: How visual explorations shape the young readers’ taste
7 Beware of the fox! Emotion and deception in Fox by Margaret Wild and Ron Brooks
8 Fear and strangeness in picturebooks: Fractured fairy tales, graphic knowledge, and teachers’ concerns
PART III Creative, critical and philosophical responses to challenging picturebooks
9 What’s real and what’s not: Playing with the mind in wordless picturebooks
10 Who’s afraid of the big bad wolf? Children’s responses to the portrayal of wolves in picturebooks
11 Filling the gaps: Exploring the writerly metaphors in Shaun Tan’s The Red Tree
12 Could this happen to us? Children’s critical responses to issues of migration in picturebooks
PART IV Thoughts from a children’s book publisher
13 The legendary Klaus Flugge: Controversial picturebooks and their place in contemporary society
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