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Hansel and Gretel is one of the best-known fairytales. Almost everybody knows the basic story but, more than that, this tale is the ur-story for many seemingly unrelated modern ones. For example, whenever a character meets a character in a ‘forest’ (whether the forest is symbolic or not), the audience is put in mind of …
Into The Forest by Anthony Browne is story book, part ‘toy book’. Young readers learn to look at pictures and search for intertextuality, as each illustration links to a well-known fairytale. This makes the book popular for classroom use, along with the Shrek films and modern stories with fairytales as ur-texts. Anthony Browne writes postmodern picturebooks and …
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Gorilla is the book that made Anthony Browne’s name as a creator of postmodern picture books. WHAT HAPPENS IN GORILLA? A girl called Hannah — about 6 or 7 years old — feels that her father doesn’t spend any time with her. She often wants to do something with him but he is always busy. …
These notes on postmodern picture books are largely from David Beagley, La Trobe University. His lecture is available as a podcast on iTunes U. A Walk In The Park is one of Browne’s very earliest picture books — his second after Through The Magic Mirror. . 25 years later, Anthony Browne decided to redo this book …
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