Inside Picture Books

By: Ellen Handler Spitz

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Paperback | 1 August 2000 | Edition Number 1

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256 Pages

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17.87 x 13.0 x 1.52

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Mention a name from a beloved childhood picture book-Madeline, Corduroy, Peter Rabbit, Max and his "wild things"-and most adults can recollect a bright image, fragments of a story, the timbre of a certain reading voice, the sensation of being held, and best of all being together with someone and enveloped in fantasy. Why do picture book images shown to us as young children linger in our minds? How do picture books shape our lives early on and even later into adulthood? This book takes up such questions. It explores the profound impact of the experience of reading to children. Ellen Handler Spitz reveals how classic picture books transmit psychological wisdom, convey moral lessons, shape tastes, and implant subtle prejudices.

Each chapter of the book discusses well-known children's books-Goodnight Moon, Babar, Little Black Sambo, to name a few-that deal with a theme of importance to young children. These include bedtime, separation, loss, and death; curiosity, disobedience, and punishment; and identity and self-acceptance. Focusing on the relationship between a child and an adult reader, Spitz explains the notion of "conversational reading" and emphasizes the mutual benefits of dialogue and intimacy. This book not only gives parents, grandparents, teachers, therapists, and scholars a new understanding of the meaning of picture books, it also empowers adults to interpret and choose future cultural experiences for their children.

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Non-Fiction Medicine Other Branches of Medicine Clinical Psychology Psychotherapy Literature, Poetry & Plays History & Criticism of Literature General Literary Studies Children's & Teenage Literature Studies Family & Health Parenting: Advice & Issues Psychology

Foreword	p. ix
Preface: A Greeting to My Reader	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xix
Pictures, Words, and Voices	p. 1
It's Time for Bed	p. 23
Please Don't Cry	p. 76
Behave Yourself	p. 122
I Like You Just the Way You Are	p. 163
A Glance Forward and Back	p. 207
Picture Books Cited	p. 217
Secondary Sources	p. 221
Index	p. 227
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