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Code-Switching in Multilingual Picturebooks
- Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 51, Number 3, July 2013
- pp. 12-21
- 10.1353/bkb.2013.0042
- Article
- Additional Information
This article demonstrates that multilingual picturebooks demand sophisticated visual and linguistic skills from the reader. Based on a close investigation of two bilingual picturebooks from Korea and Iran: Lee Tae-Jun/Kim Dong-Seong: Waiting for Mama (2007) and Farideh Chalatabarie/Scharareh Chosrawami: The Wrong Bus (2012), I argue that the intense preoccupation with pictures and text in multilingual picturebooks requires a specific capacity that complies with the linguistic model of code-switching.