Developments of Picturebooks

Chapter 7 Developments of Picturebooks Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer, Bettina Kümmerling-MeibauerSearch for more papers by this author Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer, Bettina Kümmerling-MeibauerSearch for more papers by this author Book Editor(s):Karen Coats, Karen CoatsSearch for more papers by this authorDeborah Stevenson, Deborah StevensonSearch for more papers by this authorVivian Yenika-Agbaw, Vivian Yenika-AgbawSearch for more papers by this author First published: 28 May 2022 https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119038276.ch7 AboutPDFPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Abstract This chapter focuses on the historical development of the picturebook from 1945 to the end of the twentieth century. During the first five years after World War II, publishers and picturebook artists faced the multifaceted challenges of a postwar society. The period of 1950 to 1965 served as a trailblazer for new trends in Western picturebook design and art. The subsequent time span, 1965–1980, experiences the surge of the Pop Art picturebook and other experiments in picturebook design. The final decades of the twentieth century show the growing impact of transmediation and media franchises as well as the increasing hybridization of the picturebook, which has led to the emergence of the postmodern picturebook. Since these tendencies go hand in hand with a transgression of age boundaries, crossover picturebooks have increasingly dominated the picturebook market. References Ahlberg , J. and Ahlberg , A. ( 1986 ). The Jolly Postman or Other People's Letters . London : Penguin . Allan , C. ( 2012 ). Playing with Picturebooks. Postmodernism and the Postmodernesque . Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan . Alloway , L. ( 1997 ). Popular culture and pop art . In: Pop Art. A Critical History (ed. S.H. Madoff ), 167 – 174 . Berkeley : University of California Press . Awdry , W.V. ( 1945–1972 ). Railway series. 23 vols. London : Edmund Ward . Bader , B. ( 1976 ). From Noah's Ark to the Beast Within . New York : Macmillan . Banyai , I. ( 1995a ). Zoom . New York : Viking . Banyai , I. ( 1995b ). Re-Zoom . New York : Viking . Beckett , S.L. ( 2012 ). Crossover Picturebooks: A Genre for All Ages . New York : Routledge . Blake , Q. ( 1995 ). Clown . London : Jonathan Cape . Bosch , E. ( 2018 ). Wordless picturebooks . In: The Routledge Companion to Picturebooks (ed. B. Kümmerling-Meibauer ), 191 – 200 . New York : Routledge . Briggs , R. ( 1973 ). Father Christmas . London : Hamish Hamilton . Browne , A. ( 1983 ). Gorilla . London : Walker Books . Browne , A. ( 1997 ). Willy the Dreamer . London : Walker Books . Browne , A. ( 1998 ). Voices in the Park . London : Walker Books . Bruna , D. ( 1963–2006 ). Nijntje books. 24 vols. The Hague : Mercis . [Eng. trans. Miffy books. London: Methuen, 1964–2007.] Burningham , J. ( 1984 ). Granpa . London : Jonathan Cape . Campagnaro , M. ( 2017 ). Bruno Munari's visual mapping of the city of Milan: A historical analysis of the picturebook Nella nebbia di Milano . In: Maps and Mapping in Children's Literature. Landscapes, Seascapes, and Cityscapes (ed. N. Goga and B. Kümmerling-Meibauer ), 147 – 166 . Amsterdam : John Benjamins . Carle , E. ( 1969 ). The Very Hungry Caterpillar . New York : Putnam . Christensen , N. ( 2003 ). Den danske billedbog 1950–1999. Teori, analyse, historie . Frederiksberg : Center for Børnelitteratur/Roskilde Universitetsforlag . Cole , B. ( 1986 ). Princess Smartypants . London : Hamish Hamilton . Darbois , D. ( 1952–1975 ). Enfants du monde . 20 vols. Paris : Fernand Nathan . Doderer , K. and Müller , H. ( 1973 ). Das Bilderbuch . Weinheim : Beltz . Drucker , J. ( 2018 ). Artists 'books and picturebooks: Generative dialogues . In: The Routledge Companion to Picturebooks , (ed. B. Kümmerling-Meibauer ), 291 – 301 . New York : Routledge . Druker , E. ( 2008 ). Modernismens bilder. Den moderna bilderboken i Norden . Stockholm : Makadam . Ehriander , H. ( 2011 ). Everyday and exotic: Astrid Lindgren's co-operation with Anna Riwkin-Brick . In: Beyond Pippi Longstocking. Intermedial and International Aspects of Astrid Lindgren's Works , (ed. B. Kümmerling-Meibauer and A. Surmatz ), 155 – 172 . New York : Routledge . Fatio , L. ( 1955 ). The Happy Lion (illus. R. Duvoisin). New York : McGraw Hill . Foreman , M. ( 1989 ). War Boy . London : Pavilion Books . Frasconi , A. ( 1955 ). See and Say. A Picturebook in Four Languages . New York : Harcourt . Gallaz , C. ( 1985 ). Rose Blanche (illus. R. Innocenti ). Eng. trans. Mankato, MN : Creative Education , 1985. Gidal , S. and Gidal , T. ( 1956–1972 ). My Village series. 23 vols. New York : Pantheon . Granpa . ( 1989 ). Dir. D. Jackson. London :