ABSTRACT
The consideration of picturebooks might occupy an awkward space somewhere between the domains of the currently developing Picture Theories, which are "not all theories in the same sense". Picturebooks are generally considered as a "bisemiotic" or "bimodal form of text", where the concept of intersemiotic meaning is central for representation, because "pictures and texts in a picturebook usually complement each other". Picture theory has been strongly influenced by analytical philosophy and the philosophy of language – especially with the consideration of fundamental differences between language and pictures. The frequent emphasis that pictures play a 'significant role' for interpretation and that they are of particular 'narrative importance' is correct. Picturebooks and their employment could be of special importance to these questions, and not only for didactic and educational purposes. Beekle's journey through the affordances of picture and verbal text can be seen as a site of aesthetic and conceptual experime.
