Publications

Most of the biennial conferences have generated a post-conference publication and many of these are Open Access.

New Directions in Picturebook Research

Edited by Teresa Colomer, Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer and Cecilia Silva-Díaz (Routledge, 2010).

A collection of papers from the 1st Picturebook Conference in September 2007 held at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain – New Impulses in Picturebook Research: Aesthetic and Cognitive Aspects of Picturebooks (organised by Teresa Colomer and Cecilia Silva-Díaz).

Picturebooks: Beyond the Borders of Art, Narrative and Culture  

Edited by Evelyn Arizpe, Maureen Farrell and Julie McAdam (Routledge, 2013). This book was originally published as a special issue of the New Review of Children’s Literature and Librarianship.

A collection of papers from the 2nd Picturebook Conference in September 2009 held at the University of Glasgow, UK – Beyond Borders: Art, Narrative and Culture in Picturebooks (organised by Evelyn Arizpe, Maureen Farrell and Julie McAdam)

Picturebooks: Representation and Narration

Edited by Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer (Routledge, 2014).

A collection of papers from the 3rd Picturebook Conference in September 2011 held at the University of Tübingen, Germany – History and Theory of the Picturebook (organised by Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer) 

Open Access Special Issue of the Nordic Journal of Childlit Aesthetics, Volume 6, Issue 1, 2015

Edited by Elina Druker

This includes a collection of papers from the 4th Picturebook Conference in September 2013 held at the University of Stockholm, Sweden – Picturebooks as Meetingplaces: Text, Image, Ideology (organised by Elina Druker)

Open Access Special Issue of the Issues in Early Education, 3(34), 2016 

Edited by Małgorzata Cackowska

This includes a collection of papers from the 5th Picturebook Conference in September 2015 held at the University of Gdańsk, Poland – Picturebooks, Democracy and Social Change (organised by Małgorzata Cackowska)

Open Access Special Issue of the Journal of Theories and Research in Education, 14(2) in 2019. Special issue: Home, Lived-in-Spaces and Childhood in European Picturebooks from 1945 to the Present Day

Edited by Carla Callegari and Marnie Campagnaro

This includes a collection of papers from the 6th Picturebook Conference in September 2017 held at the University of Padova, Italy – Home and Lived-In Spaces in Picturebooks from the 1950s to the Present (organised by Marnie Campagnaro)

Open Access book – Verbal and Visual Strategies in Nonfiction Picturebooks. Theoretical and Analytical Approaches

Edited by Nina Goga, Sarah Hoem Iversen and Anne-Stefi Teigland (Scandinavian University Press, 2021).

This includes a collection of papers from the 7th Picturebook Conference in September 2019, held at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (HVL), Bergen, Norway – Verbal and Visual Strategies in Nonfiction Picturebooks (organised by Nina Goga, Sarah Hoem Iversen and Anne-Stefi Teigland)