AP/CCY 3691 3.00

Picture Books in Children’s Culture

In this course, students learn about the intertwining relationships between illustrations and narratives in children’s picturebooks. The course invites students to think about how children, as viewers and listeners/readers, make meaning of what they see and hear and read. For these purposes, the course delves into picturebook theory from the points of view of production by authors and artists, and reception by children and the people who read with and to them. This is a seminar course that involves analysis of picturebooks on the basis of theoretical concepts, planned presentations, and the production of an original picturebook.