Janet Evans is an Independent Scholar, freelance Literacy and Educational Consultant and former Senior Lecturer in Education at Liverpool Hope University, UK.

Children's thoughts on challenging and controversial picturebooks Adults' thoughts on challenging and controversial picturebooks Part One: Challenging and controversial picturebooks: What are they and who are they for? 1. Picturebooks as Strange, Challenging and Controversial Texts Janet Evans (Independent Scholar, England) 2. The Scandal of the Commonplace: The Strangeness of Bestselling Picturebooks Perry Nodelman (The University of Winnipeg, Canada) 3. From Traditional Tales, Fairy Stories and Cautionary Tales to Controversial Visual Texts: Do we need to be Fearful? Sandra Beckett (Canada) 4. Who are these picturebooks for?: Controversial Picturebooks And The Question Of Audience Ase Marie Ommundsen (Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Norway) Part Two: Controversy and ambiguity in the art of the visual 5. Fusion Texts, the new kid on the block: What are they and where have they come from? Janet Evans (Independent Scholar, England) 6. "These books made me really curious". How visual explorations shape young readers' taste Marnie Campagnaro ( University of Padua, Italy) 7. Beware of the fox! Emotion and Deception in Fox by Margaret Wild and Ron BrooksBettina Kümmerling-Meibauer & Jörg Meibauer (Germany) 8. Fear and Strangeness in Picturebooks: Fractured Fairy Tales, Graphic Knowledge and Teachers' Concerns Elizabeth Marshall (Simon Fraser University, Canada) Part Three: Creative, Critical and Philosophical Responses to Challenging Picturebooks 9. What's Real And What's Not: Playing With The Mind In Wordless Picturebooks Sandie Mourao (Independent Scholar, Portugal) 10. Who's afraid of the big bad wolf: Responses to the portrayal of wolves in picturebooks Kerenza Ghosh (University of Roehampton, England) 11. Filling the Gaps: Exploring the Writerly Metaphors in Shaun Tan's The Red Tree Sylvia Pantaleo (University of Victoria, Canada) 12. Could This Happen To Us?: Responding To Issues Of Migration In Picturebooks Janet Evans (Independent Scholar, England) Part Four Thoughts from a children's book publisher 13. The Legendary Klaus Flugge: Controversial picturebooks and their place in contemporary society Klaus Flugge in conversation with Janet Evans