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9780300084764

Inside Picture Books

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  • ISBN13:

    9780300084764

  • ISBN10:

    0300084765

  • Format: Trade Paper
  • Copyright: 2000-08-11
  • Publisher: Yale University Press

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Summary

Why do images from beloved childhood picture books linger in our minds? How do picture books shape our lives early on and even into adulthood? In this book Ellen Handler Spitz explores the profound impact of reading to children -- on the reader as well as the listener. She discusses well-known picture books and how they transmit psychological wisdom, convey moral lessons, shape tastes, and build a special bond between the child and the adult reader.

Author Biography

Ellen Handler Spitz teaches in the department of art and art history at Stanford University

Table of Contents

Foreword ix
Robert Coles
Preface: A Greeting to My Reader xiii
Acknowledgments xix
Pictures, Words, and Voices
1(22)
It's Time for Bed
23(53)
Please Don't Cry
76(46)
Behave Yourself
122(41)
I Like You Just the Way You Are
163(44)
A Glance Forward and Back 207(10)
Picture Books Cited 217(4)
Secondary Sources 221(6)
Index 227

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