Picturebooks and early literacy

This contribution builds upon two strands of our joint research. The first is to explore the interaction between language acquisition and the acquisition of children’s literature (Meibauer 2011; Kümmerling-Meibauer and Meibauer 2013). The second is to explore the nature of picturebooks with respect to children’s cognitive development of which language development is a part (e.g. Kümmerling-Meibauer and Meibauer 2005, 2011c). Our basic assumptions can be put into the following hypotheses guiding our research (Kümmerling-Meibauer and Meibauer 2013).