"The Goodbye Backpack" : applying structural design principles to a picturebook
department or school: Arts, Faculty of
department or school: iSchool (Library, Archival and Information Studies)
data provider: DSpace
degree campus: UBCV
creator: Tierney, Lynda
issued: 2021-05-31T07:00:00Z
issued: 2020
related degree: Master of Arts - MA
degree grantor: University of British Columbia
description: This hybrid creative thesis consists of two parts: a creative portion and an academic portion. The creative portion is a printed dummy of my original picturebook The Goodbye Backpack, which portrays the complex and challenging nuances of death and the grieving process. The dummy book includes the written text and four final illustrations. The academic portion of this thesis begins by investigating the prevalence of representations of death in children’s literature, as well as how picturebooks can be used to comfort children after they encounter death. Using the ten structural principles of composition defined by Molly Bang, it continues with a detailed examination of The Goodbye Backpack. By analyzing each spread in the dummy book, it explains how compositional choices—such as the directionality of the lines and the placement of visual elements—can provoke specific emotional responses from readers. This thesis aims to demonstrate the importance of including visual representations of death in children’s picturebooks and clarify how an understanding of death can make it less frightening. It also strives to shed light on the process of creating a visual connotative picturebook that heavily relies on structural principles to tell a story that is emotionally evocative and abstract.
aggregated CHO: https://circle.library.ubc.ca/rest/handle/2429/74333
note: “The Goodbye Backpack”: Applying Structural Design Principles to a Picturebook by Lynda Tierney B.A., The University of British Columbia, 2011 A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS in THE FACULTY OF GRADUATE AND POSTDOCTORAL STUDIES (Children’s Literature) THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (Vancouver) April 2020 © Lynda Tierney, 2020 ii The following individuals certify that they have read, and recommend to the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies for acceptance, a thesis entitled: “The Goodbye Backpack”: Applying Structural Design Principles to a Picturebook Submitted by Lynda Tierney in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Children’s Literature Examining Committee: Dr. Kathryn Shoemaker, Language, Literacy, and Education Department __________________________________________________________________ Co-Supervisor Dr. Eric Meyers, Library, Archives, and Information School __________________________________________________________________ Co-Supervisor Maggie De Vries, Creative Writing Department __________________________________________________________________ Supervisory Committee Member iii Abstract This hybrid creative thesis consists of two parts: a creative portion and an academic portion. The creative portion is a printed dummy of my original picturebook The Goodbye Backpack, which portrays the complex and challenging nuances of death and the grieving process. The dummy book includes the written text and four final illustrations. The academic portion of this thesis begins by investigating the prevalence of representations of death in children’s literature, as well as how picturebooks can be used to comfort children after they encounter death. Using the ten structural principles of composition defined by Molly Bang, it continues with a detailed examination of The Goodbye Backpack. By analyzing each spread in the dummy book, it explains how compositional choi…
has type: Thesis/Dissertation
date issued: 2020-05
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0390354
language: eng
degree discipline: Children's Literature
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: University of British Columbia
rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
rights URI: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
scholar level: Graduate
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/74333