Research Catalog

Title

Picturing Canada : a history of Canadian children's illustrated books and publishing / Gail Edwards and Judith Saltman.

Author

Edwards, Gail.

Publication

Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, c2010.

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Additional Authors

Saltman, Judith.

Description

xxiii, 381 p., [20] p. of plates : ill. (some col.); 26 cm.

Summary

• "The study of children's illustrated books is located within the broad histories of print culture, publishing, the book trade, and concepts of childhood. An interdisciplinary history, Picturing Canada provides a critical understanding of the changing geographical, historical, and cultural aspects of Canadian identity, as seen through the lens of children's publishing over two centuries.
• Gail Edwards and Judith Saltman illuminate the connection between children's publishing and Canadian nationalism, analyse the gendered history of children's librarianship, identify changes and continuities in narrative themes and artistic styles, and explore recent changes in the creation and consumption of children's illustrated books. Over 130 interviews with Canadian authors, illustrators, editors, librarians, booksellers, critics, and other contributors to Canadian children's book publishing, document the experiences of those who worked in the industry.
• An important and wholly original work, Picturing Canada is fundamental to our understanding of publishing history and the history of childhood itself in Canada."--pub. desc.

Series Statement

Studies in book and print culture

Uniform Title

Studies in book and print culture

Subject

• Illustrated children's books > History. > Canada
• Children's literature, Canadian > History and criticism
• Children > Books and reading > Canada
• Livres illustrés pour enfants > Histoire. > Canada
• Littérature de jeunesse canadienne > Histoire et critique
• Enfants > Livres et lecture > Canada

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-358 and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- Beginnings to the 1890s: Canadian children's books in the Imperial Era -- The 1890s to the 1950s "'And whether we are yet a nation' -- The postwar period: Creating a children's publishing industry -- The 1970s: Developing a children's publishing industry -- The 1980s: The flowering of Canadian children's illustrated books -- The 1990s to the present day: Structural challenges and changes -- Children's illustrated books, 1990 to the present day -- Canadian cultural identity, Canadian cultural identities.

ISBN

• 9780802037596 (bound)
• 0802037593 (bound)
• 9780802085405 (pbk.)
• 0802085407 (pbk.)

OCLC

466429803

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library