Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer
List of John Benjamins publications for which Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer plays a role.
Book series
ISSN 2212-9006
Photography in Children's Literature
Edited by Elina Druker and Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer
[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 17] 2023. xv, 306 pp.
Subjects General studies in art & art history | Theoretical literature & literary studies
Maps and Mapping in Children's Literature: Landscapes, seascapes and cityscapes
Edited by Nina Goga and Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer
[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 7] 2017. x, 267 pp.
Subjects Cognition and language | Theoretical literature & literary studies
Children's Literature and the Avant-Garde
Edited by Elina Druker and Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer
[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 5] 2015. xii, 295 pp.
Subjects General studies in art & art history | Theoretical literature & literary studies
Emergent Literacy: Children's books from 0 to 3
Edited by Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer
[Studies in Written Language and Literacy, 13] 2011. vi, 275 pp.
Subjects Language acquisition | Writing and literacy
2023 Introduction: Photography in children’s literature Photography in Children's Literature, Druker, Elina and Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer (eds.), pp. 1–19 | Chapter
2023 Chapter 10. Portrait of the child as a socialist: Three photographic picturebooks from the German Democratic Republic Photography in Children's Literature, Druker, Elina and Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer (eds.), pp. 232–253 | Chapter
This chapter focuses on portraits of children in three photographic picturebooks from the German Democratic Republic (GDR). While these picturebooks draw largely on modernist photography in the postwar period, they also react sensitively to ideological demands from the official state authorities. read more
2017 Introduction. Maps and mapping in children’s literature Maps and Mapping in Children's Literature: Landscapes, seascapes and cityscapes, Goga, Nina and Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Chapter
2017 Chapter 4. Metaphorical maps in picturebooks Maps and Mapping in Children's Literature: Landscapes, seascapes and cityscapes, Goga, Nina and Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer (eds.), pp. 75–91 | Chapter
This chapter focuses on the cognitive and narrative functions of metaphorical maps in picturebooks. In contrast to maps that present real or fictional city- and landscapes, metaphorical maps are used to visualize abstract concepts. In particular, two types of metaphorical maps in picturebooks are… read more
2015 Introduction: Children’s literature and the avant-garde Children's Literature and the Avant-Garde, Druker, Elina and Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer (eds.), pp. 1–16 | Article
2015 Chapter 10. Just what is it that makes Pop Art picturebooks so different, so appealing? Children's Literature and the Avant-Garde, Druker, Elina and Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer (eds.), pp. 241–266 | Article
In the 1960s and 1970s the Pop Art movement exerted a great influence on picturebook artists in different European countries (Finland, France, Germany, Poland, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom) and the USA. By referring to various avant-garde movements, such as Dadaism, Expressionism, and… read more
2013 Review of Pahl & Rowsell (2012): Early childhood literacy Written Language & Literacy 16:2, pp. 281–284 | Review
2011 1. Emergent literacy and children’s literature Emergent Literacy: Children's books from 0 to 3, Kümmerling-Meibauer, Bettina (ed.), pp. 1–14 | Article
2011 6. Early-concept books: Acquiring nominal and verbal concepts Emergent Literacy: Children's books from 0 to 3, Kümmerling-Meibauer, Bettina (ed.), pp. 91–114 | Article
This article focuses on picturebooks for young children aged 12 to 24 months. This type of picturebook has been largely neglected in picturebook research, albeit it provides fascinating insights into the literary and cognitive development of young children. Two types of picturebooks will be… read more
2008 Images of childhood in Romantic children's literature Romantic Prose Fiction, Gillespie, Gerald, Manfred Engel and Bernard Dieterle (eds.), pp. 183–203 | Article