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This chapter explores the picturebook as potentially stimulating intergenerational play and discusses examples from the corpus of Croatian picturebooks. The basic semiotic structure of the picturebook, which consists of two discourses that relate the same story or dwell on the same theme, results in its distinctive characteristics that encourage play. The most obvious characteristic of this kind, interactivity takes various forms, ranging from the physical, tactile interaction with the book to puzzles and searching games of varying complexity. Intertextuality is another feature that invites readers to become involved in guessing games. Nonsense and jokes challenge the readers’ sense of humor, and metafictive devices offer yet another variety of picturebook playfulness. Multiple features may add up to playful tasks and challenges of varying sophistication which expand the readers’ competences. It is particularly in this area that picturebooks assert their commitment to a dual—adult and child—readership. |
