Dear Bettina
I have been following the suggestions here with interest. What impressed me about that particular Anthony Browne book was that the alternative perspectives were so completely separated that the different narratives do not share the page and are otherwise separated by font style and art-work (I have mislaid my copy so this is a recollection).
I was casting about for something with that same oppositional emphasis and came up with a late 1960s example from the UK - John S Goodall - "The Adventures of Paddy Pork" published by Macmillan in 1968. Goodall is satirizing conventional picture books and uses a wordless format in which half-pages are turned to advance the action; first the pig is relaxing in a smooth harmonious narrative, and then over the page this is suddenly disrupted.
A very enjoyable thread to be a part of - I am checking out books with which I was unfamiliar before.
Regards and thanks
Helen
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Subject: Picturebooks presenting multiple perspectives
Dear all,
I am looking for picturebooks that present multiple perspectives on
the same story, as in Anthony Browne's "Voices in the Park". I would
appreciate any suggestion that might help me to find more picturebooks
of this kind.
Kind regards,
Bettina
Prof. Dr. Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer
Eberhard Karls-Universität Tübingen
Deutsches Seminar
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