Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures; Preface; Introduction: Why We Need More Words; 1 Chewing on Baby Books as a Form of Infant Literacy: Books Are for Biting; 2 Six Degrees of Closeness in the Picture Book Experience: Getting Closer; 3 Art, Adaptation, and the Antipodean in Shaun Tan's The Lost Thing; 4 The Design and Development of the Picture Book for Mobile and Interactive Platforms: "You get to BE Harold's Purple Crayon"; 5 Towards a Connective Ethnography of Children's Literature and Digital Media: The New Media Encounter

6 Performing Picture Books as Co-Authorship: Audiences Critically and Semiotically Interact with Professional Authors during Author Visits7 Environmental Picture Books: Cultivating Conservationists; 8 Visual Staging of Virtue in Islamic Children's Literature: Discipline and Pleasure; 9 Between Picture Book and Graphic Novel: Mixed Signals in Kim Fupz Aakeson and Rasmus Bregnhøi's I love you Danmark; 10 Narrative Space in Sheree Fitch's Merry-Go-Day and Night Sky Wheel Ride: Picture-Book Poesis; 11 Be Kind or Stupid; List of Contributors; Index