Notes 

Chapter One

1. Kimberley Reynolds, Radical Children's Literature: Future Visions and Aesthetic Transformations in Juvenile Fiction (Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), 16–17; David Lewis, “The Constructedness of Texts: Picture Books and the Metafictive,” Signal 62 (May 1990): 141.

2. Sandra L. Beckett, “Breaking Boundaries with Radical Picture Books” (paper presented at the international conference “Image and Imagery,” Brock University, St. Catharines, October 16, 2002). The Swiss authors of a 2000 catalogue on developments in picturebooks also speak of the “radical change” in children's literature that began in the 1960s. See Schau genau! Variationen im Bilderbuch 1950–2000. Look twice! Variations in picture books 1950–2000, Katalog ...

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