Texts suitable for children?

Complicated narrative structures

Black and White by David Macaulay

Outside Over There by

iDiot! by Dorte Karrebaek and Oscar K.

Subject matter considered inappropriate by teacher or parent

Drugs and alcohol abuse- Snow White by Ana Juan

Death- Duck, Death and the Tulip by

La Visite de Petite Mort by

The Children’s Undertaker by Dorte Karrebaek and Oscar K.

Suicide

Petit Ane by Serge Koslov and Vitaly Statzynsky

Matricide- Die Menschenfresserin by Valérie Dayre and Wolf Erlbruch

iDiot! by Dorte Karrebaek and Oscar K.

Depression and mental illness- Mama by Gro Dahle and Svein Nyhus

Red Tree by

Black Dog by Matthew Johnstone

Sexuality- And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson, Peter Parnell and Henry Cole

Snow White by Ana Juan

Language- Poo Bum by Stephanie Blake

Poverty- We Are All in the Dumps by Maurice Sendak

Mia’s Story by Michael Foreman (refers to a Campamento San Francisco in san Bernardo, Stgo)

Graphics too real

Blood- De Tre by Dorte Karrebaek and Oscar K.

Drugs and sex- Snow White by Ana Juan

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Violence- Gashleycrumb Tinies by

The Angry Man by Gro Dahle and Svein Nyhus

War- Humo by Antón Fortes and Joanna Consejo

Lejren by Dorte Karrebaek and Oscar K.

Rose Blanche by Roberto Innocenti and Ian McEwan

Bodily functions- Little Mole by Wolf Erlbruch

De Tre by Dorte Karrebaek and Oscar K.

You may want to read more about how picturebooks work and I can recommend these texts:

Arzipe, E. and Styles, M. (2003) Children Reading Pictures: Interpreting Visual Texts, London: RoutledgeFalmer

Beckett, S. (2012) Crossover Picturebooks: A Genre for All Ages Oxon:Routledge

Colomer, T., Kümmerling, B. and Silvia-Díaz,C. (2010) New Directions in Picturebook Research Oxon:Routledge

Doonan, J. (1993) Looking at Pictures in Picture Books, Exeter: Thimble Press

Evans, J. (1998) (ed.) What’s in the Picture? Responding to Illustrations in Picture Books, London: Paul Chapman Publishing

Haynes, J. and Murris, K. (2012) Picturebooks, Pedagogy and Philosophy Oxford:Routledge

Kiefer, B. (1995) The Potential of Picturebooks: from visual literacy to aesthetic understanding NJ: Prentice Hall

Lewis, D (2001) Reading Contemporary Picturebooks London:Routledge

Sipe, L. and Pantaleo, S. (2008) Postmodern Picturebooks: Play, Parody and Self-Referentiality Oxford: Routledge

Howard Cotton Plymouth University 2015