ABSTRACT
Ludistics, or play theory, investigates the necessity and importance of play in human development and communication (Huizinga 2000). Due to their intermedial nature, picturebooks have strong potential to be playful, which goes far beyond the well-researched areas such as parody, intertextuality/ intervisuality, and metafi ction (e.g., Mackey 1990; Bradford 1993; Trites 1994; Kümmerling-Meibauer 1999; Beckett 2001).
