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  • Children's Picturebooks Second Edition

    The Art of Visual Storytelling

    Children’s picturebooks are the very first books we encounter and play a major role in introducing us to both art and language. But what does it take to create a successful picturebook for children? This revised edition of a bestselling title carries invaluable insight into a highly productive, dynamic sector of the publishing world. Featuring interviews with leading illustrators and publishers ... Read more

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  • Children's Picturebooks

    The Art of Visual Storytelling

    Children’s picturebooks are the very first books we encounter, and they form an important, constantly evolving, and dynamic sector of the publishing world. But what does it take to create a successful picturebook for children?In seven chapters, this book covers the key stages of conceiving a narrative, creating a visual language and developing storyboards and design of a picturebook. The book ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Children Reading Pictures

    New Contexts and Approaches to Picturebooks

    Children Reading Pictures: New Contexts and Approaches to Picturebooks offers up-to-date research evidence on the responses of the primary audience for picturebooks – children. The new edition has retained the best of the original while expanding its scope in several directions, including the role of the art museum in helping children and their teachers to broaden and deepen their appreciation of ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Opening The Nursery Door

    Opening the Nursery Door is a fascinating collection of essays inspired by the discovery of a tiny archive: the nursery library of Jane Johnson 1707-1759, wife of a Lincolnshire vicar. It has captured the scholarly interest of social anthropologists, historians, literary scholars, educationalists and archivists as it has opened up a range of questions about the nature of childhood within English ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Teaching Through Texts

    Promoting Literacy Through Popular and Literary Texts in the Primary Classroom

    Edited by Holly Anderson, Morag Styles ...
    Drawing on many popular and literary texts, the contributors to this book write with enthusiasm about opportunities for creative teaching and learning, and provide many examples of good practice both inside and outside the Literacy Hour ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Teaching Caribbean Poetry

    Edited by Beverley Bryan, Morag Styles ...
    Series series National Association for the Teaching of English (NATE)
    Teaching Caribbean Poetry will inform and inspire readers with a love for, and understanding of, the dynamic world of Caribbean poetry. This unique volume sets out to enable secondary English teachers and their students to engage with a wide range of poetry, past and present; to understand how histories of the Caribbean underpin the poetry and relate to its interpretation; and to explore how ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

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  • Writing Picture Books Revised and Expanded Edition

    A Hands-On Guide From Story Creation to Publication

    Master the Art of Writing Enthralling Tales for the Youngest pre-and emerging readers!Fully updated and thoroughly revised, Writing Picture Books Revised and Expanded Edition is the go-to resource for writers crafting stories for children ages two to eight. You'll learn the unique set of skills it takes to bring your story to life by using tightly focused text and leaving room for the illustrator ... Read more

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  • How to Be an Illustrator Second Edition

    by Darrel Rees ...
    This book offers practical help and guidance to aspiring illustrators. All areas of the job are covered – creating a portfolio; approaching potential clients; preparing for meetings and negotiating contracts; setting up a studio; maintaining a flow of work and managing one’s time and cash. Self-promotion, creating websites, self-publishing and the pros and cons of agents are all explored ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Craftland

    In Search of Lost Arts and Disappearing Trades

    by James Fox ...
    An “impassioned and inspiring account of the extraordinary men and women still doing traditional artisanal work” (The Sunday Times) in the face of massive technological industrialization—by renowned Cambridge art historian Dr. James Fox.“Beautifully written and (charmingly illustrated) . . . His chronicle of the decline of the traditional trades is staggering.”—The Wall Street JournalDuring an age ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • House of Lilies

    The Dynasty That Made Medieval France

    The definitive history of the Capetians, the crusading dynasty that made the French crown the wealthiest and most powerful in medieval Europe and forged France as we know it today.“A joy to read from start to finish. This is not only the best history of the Capetian dynasty now available in English, it is also one of the most entertaining popular history books published in recent years.” —Dan ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Developing Children's Critical Thinking through Picturebooks

    A guide for primary and early years students and teachers

    by Mary Roche ...
    This accessible text will show students and class teachers how they can enable their pupils to become critical thinkers through the medium of picturebooks. By introducing children to the notion of making-meaning together through thinking and discussion, Roche focuses on carefully chosen picturebooks as a stimulus for discussion, and shows how they can constitute an accessible, multimodal resource ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Exploring Student Response to Contemporary Picturebooks

    Despite being a source of continuing interest to educational scholars, research into the literary understanding of elementary school students has emphasized written materials over multimodal mediums such as picturebooks. Focusing on students in Grades one and five, this book describes children's interpretations of and responses to a variety of contemporary picturebooks, specifically those books ... Read more

    $31.69 USD