(University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries n.d.), have digitizations freely available. New scholarly projects on the early picturebook also involve digital humanities components. “Nineteenth-Century European Picture-Books in Colour” (PiCoBoo), a project led by Francesca Tancini (n.d.) in conjunction with Matthew Grenby, provides invaluable information about early picturebooks along with page images of some books and a field-defining insistence on the colored picturebook’s cultural importance in nineteenth-century Europe. The “Learning as Play” site animates a number of the nineteenth-century movable picturebooks which run alongside other less novel picturebook forms (Reid-Walsh 2019). Writing this chapter made me highly grateful for this work – as well as clamorous for more of it.
NOTES
1 1 The Caldecott Medal is awarded by the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) – a division of the American Library Association (ALA) – and the Kate Greenaway Medal by the United Kingdom’s Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP).
2 2 For an alternative reading of the cover and expressly the idea that the dish and spoon represent character portraits conjured up by the cat’s music, see (Masaki 2006, p. 327).
3 3 The figures of facing pages from the “Baby Bunting” sequence show two separate page images placed side by side, rather than a scan of the whole page opening. The monochrome pages have also been photographed in black and white, although the original designs were in sepia.
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