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superfluous details. The latter quality encourages speculation as well as bringing a
beautiful economy to the page. The Swineherd by Hans Christian Andersen (1982), Little
Red Cap by the Brothers Grimm (1983), and The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde (1984) all
show how consistently well Zwerger is able to honour and interpret traditional texts.

Further Reading

Alderson, B. (1986) Sing a Song for Sixpence, London: Cambridge University Press in association
with the British Library.
Bader, B. (1976) American Picturebooks from Noah’s Ark to The Beast Within, New York:
Macmillan.
Bennett, J. (1979) Learning to Read with Picture Books, South Woodchester: Thimble Press.
Doonan, J. (1992) Looking at Pictures in Picture Books, South Woodchester: Thimble Press..
Fever, W. (1977) When We Were Very Young, London: Thames and Hudson.
Graham, J. (1990) Pictures on the Page, Sheffield: NATE.
Hunt, P. (1991) Criticism, Theory and Children’s Literature, Oxford: Blackwell.
Hurlimann, B. (1967), Three Centuries of Children’s Books in Europe, trans. and ed. by B.W.
Alderson, London: Oxford University Press.
——(1968) Picture-Book World, trans. and ed. by B.W.Alderson, London: Oxford University Press.
Kingman, L. (ed.) (1978) The Illustrator’s Notebook, Boston: The Horn Book.
Lewis, D. (1990) ‘The constructedness of texts: picture books and the metafictive’, Signal 62:131–
146.
Martin, D. (1989) The Telling Line, London: MacRae.
Meek, M. (1988) How Texts Teach what Readers Learn, South Woodchester: Thimble Press.
Moss, E. (1985) Picture Books for Young Children 9–13, 2nd edn, South Woodchester: Thimble
Press.
Nodelman, P. (1988) Words About Pictures, Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press.
Pullman, P. (1989) ‘Invisible pictures’, Signal 60:160–186.
Schwarcz, J.H. (1982) Ways of the Illustrator, Chicago: American Library Association.
Sendak, M. (1988) Caldecott & Co., New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Whalley, J.I. and Chester, T.R. (1989) A History of Children’s Book Illustration, London: John
Murray in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum.

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