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Children's literature, along with all the other genres in the past fifty years, has taken on an appreciation for the tenets of postmodernism, according to the contributors of these 16 essays. Lest we worry that small children may not fully grasp the presence of irony or ambivalence, the contributors speak primarily to adult readers, describing the evolution of form and substance in children's picture books, defining the role of the artist in such books, and applying radical change theory. They describe how play and playfulness work in postmodern picture books, global postmodernism in Australia's picture books, postmodern picture books and the material conditions of reading, the paradox of space, anxieties in imagination and multi-modality, picture books as artifacts, the work of Lauren Child and Ed Vere, true fairy tales, third-graders' collaborative sense-making, and children's responses to postmodern picture books. The case study on responses to Wiesner's The Three Pigs is especially interesting. Annotation ⓒ2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Introduction: Postmodernism and Picturebooks Sylvia Pantaleo and Lawrence R. Sipe. 1. What is a Picturebook, Anyway? The Evolution of Form and Substance Through the Postmodern Era and Beyond Barbara Kiefer 2. The Artist and the Postmodern Picturebook Martin Salisbury 3. Radical Change Theory, Postmodernism and Contemporary Picturebooks Eliza T. Dresang 4. Play and Playfulness in Postmodern Picturebooks Maria Nikolajeva 5. Postmodern Picturebooks and the Transmodern Self Karen Coats 6. “They are Always Surprised at What People Throw Away”: Glocal Postmodernism in Australian Picturebooks John Stephens 7. Postmodern Picturebooks and the Material Conditions of Reading Margaret Mackey 8. The Paradox of Space in Postmodern Picturebooks Bette Goldstone 9. Imagination and Multimodality: Reading, Picturebooks, and Anxieties about Childhood Christine Hall 10. Postmodern Picturebook as Artefact: Developing Tools for an Archaeological Dig Michele Anstey11.Lauren Child: Utterly and Absolutely Exceptionordinarily Susan Lehr 12. Would I Lie to You?: Metalepsis and Modal Disruption in Some “True” Fairy Tales Robyn McCallum 13. “It Doesn't Say How?”: Third Graders’ Collaborative Sense-making from Postmodern Picturebooks Caroline McGuire, Monica Belfatti, and Maria Ghiso 14. The Voices Behind the Pictures: Children Responding to Postmodern PicturebooksEvelyn Arizpe and Morag Styles with Kate Cowan, Louiza Mallouri &Mary Anne Wolpert 15. First-Graders Interpret David Wiesner’s The Three Pigs: A Case Study Lawrence R. Sipe 16.Ed Vere’s The Getaway: Starring a Postmodern Cheese Thief Sylvia Pantaleo. Editor and Contributor Biographies. Index.

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