The Poetics of Maternal Picturebooks for Babies: An Attempt at Defining an Ambivalent Genre.
Motherhood has recently become a central topic in a certain kind of picturebook meant for babies that do not tell a story about mothers and children, but rather focus on feelings linked to the mother-baby bond. These picturebooks, which have experienced a notable increase in the last ten years, shar...
| Publicado en: | Children's Literature in Education Vol. 54; no. 3; pp. 430 - 443 |
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