This volume represents the current state of research on picture books and other adjacent hybrid forms of visual/verbal texts such as comics, graphic novels, and

The screen has never been merely a canvas for the images to be displayed but also – to quote Jean-Luc Godard – “a blank page”, a surface for inscription

Goose asks to play "Duck, Duck, Goose" with the other animals and birds, but causes trouble by insisting that none of them can possibly be goose.

Text and image are used together in an increasingly flexible fashion and many disciplines and areas of study are now attempting to understand how these combinat

Multimodality is a fast-growing interdisciplinary approach that aims to analyze the interplay of multiple modes such as gaze, gesture or spoken language that ar