Learning from Picturebooks

<p>Picturebooks understood as a series of meaningful text-picture relations are increasingly acknowledged as an autonomous sub-genre of children's literature. Being highly complex aesthetic products their use is deeply embedded in specific situations of joint attention between a caregiver and a child. This volume focuses on the question of what children may learn from looking at picturebooks whether printed in a book format created in a digital format or self-produced by educationalists and researchers.</p>