Course: Pictures of Youth: An Introduction to Children’s Visual Culture

Defining ‘picturebooks’ is tricky. There’s overlap with comics, with illustrated novels, and even with illuminated manuscripts… Theorists don’t even necessarily use the same spelling – you see ‘picture book’ quite …

What do you think happened to Max? What other features of Where the Wild Things Are – or other beloved picturebooks – did it take you a while to notice?

And so, with housekeeping activities out of the way, a warm welcome to our course! Our first week is divided into the following core activities: 1) What is a picturebook? …

How this all works Each week will have a theme, and we’ll learn about it through videos, articles and discussion. There will also be other optional tasks and exercises you …