ABSTRACT
This chapter considers ways in which books published after 2010 picture youngsters demonstrating how they integrate reading into their choice of pursuits. In the picturebooks described here, children engage in creative work and play leading to innovation and invention. In these books, authors and illustrators portray children creating, building and dancing while bewildered adults observe and listen. In contrast to the books summarised in this chapter, those that feature children in the context of recent technologies rarely emphasise children's own creative 'hand and head work' of referring to the books, maps and drawings created by others or through their own sketching, designing and building within adult-like roles. Picturebooks such as those summarised in this chapter are most likely to appeal to parents and teachers ready to tolerate the imaginative antics inspired by Rosie, Frances Dean, Elliot, and other characters who want to build, act, draw, sing, dance or bring home a penguin.
