‘To Illustrate the Unspeakable’. Images in a philosophical picturebooks for children Cover Image

„Zilustrować niewysławialne” – o obrazach w filozoficznych picturebookach dla dzieci
‘To Illustrate the Unspeakable’. Images in a philosophical picturebooks for children

Author(s): Alina Brzuska-Kępa, Rafał Kępa
Subject(s): Education, Library and Information Science, Education and training, School education
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: picturebook; philosophical book for children; picture; illustration; intersemiotic translation

Summary/Abstract: In the last few years on the book market there are more and more philosophical books intended for children, or at least ‘philosophising’. A large part of the publication of this type are picturebooks, using an image as the main carrier of information. In this article we will try to answer the question whether the adoption of such a convention – it is constructing content based not only on the text, but also as a significant image (sometimes made by the same person) can be helpful with these ‘unspeakable’ concepts. How authors and illustrators are trying to present the most general and the most difficult is-sues? Whether the use of the image would be helpful in this case, or what ‘unspeakable’ is also unillustrateable’?

  • Issue Year: 22/2016
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 45-64
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Polish