By Gail Edwards,Judith Saltman
The learn of kid's illustrated books is found in the extensive histories of print tradition, publishing, the ebook alternate, and ideas of youth. An interdisciplinary background, Picturing Canada presents a severe figuring out of the altering geographical, old, and cultural elements of Canadian id, as visible in the course of the lens of kid's publishing over centuries.
Gail Edwards and Judith Saltman light up the relationship among kid's publishing and Canadian nationalism, examine the gendered background of kid's librarianship, determine adjustments and continuities in narrative topics and creative types, and discover fresh adjustments within the production and intake of kid's illustrated books. Over a hundred thirty interviews with Canadian authors, illustrators, editors, librarians, booksellers, critics, and different participants to Canadian kid's e-book publishing, rfile the reviews of these who labored within the industry.
An vital and totally unique paintings, Picturing Canada is prime to our figuring out of publishing heritage and the background of youth itself in Canada.
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