Perry Nodelman is a professor of English at the University of Winnipeg. He is the author of "The Pleasures of Children's Literature," an introduction to literary and theoretical approaches to children's literature recently released in a new third edition written in collaboration with Mavis Reimer. He has also published three novels for young adults and, in collaboration with Carol Matas, the young adult Fantasies in the Minds series.
Words About Pictures is an excellent reference book for critics,
scholars and others and perhaps the best available study of the
relationship between words and pictures in children's picture
books.--One Minute Book Reviews
A brilliant, almost overwhelming study that treats Maurice Sendak
and Trina Schart Hyman with the same attention to detail and nuance
that Wayne Booth gives Jane Austen in The Rhetoric of Fiction. . .
. An exceptionally rich book, Words About Pictures asks you to
think and read and look and look again. It will open your
eyes.--Washington Post Book World
Nodelman brings the disciplines of psychology and art history, of
semiotics and reader-response theory, as well as insights from an
eclectic cadre of other disciplines to this book. Words About
Pictures is the most complete theoretical analysis of the
genre.--Wilson Library Bulletin
Thoughtful and thought provoking, Nodelman's discussion ranges over
topics such as the ways pictures communicate information, style as
meaning, the contextual meaning of visual objects, irony, and
rhythms of narrative.--Booklist
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