Abstract
The paper deals with the picture book Scaredy Squirrel illustrated and written by the Canadian author Melanie Watt. First, it is about the contemporary production of picture books about feelings, and then it is considered what is the place of the picture book Scaredy Squirrel among them. The picture book is analyzed as dual, visual, and verbal piece of art whose meaning emerges from the dialogue between image and text. The role of paratext, metatextual playing and the fragmentation of the narrative dominated by linguistic and pictorial enumerations and interruptions of linear storytelling with non-literary genres (tables, plans, lists) are pointed out. The emphasis is on interactivity and communicativeness and addressing a dual readership, children and adults. Children are encouraged in an unobtrusive, playful, and humorous way, while the understanding of adults is also offered with meanings related to criticism and parody of modern media and the society of fear.
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