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Found in illustration. Tea culture, travel and hospitality in children's books
Weber, Irena
Leaving aside the 'impossibility' of children's literature being written and illustrated for children rather than by children, and thus reflecting the relationship between adults and children, the ...presentation will focus on three picturebooks for children and one crossover book that can be read by both children and adults. In literary studies, picturebooks are defined as books in which images and text are interrelated, whereas in picture books the words are the same as the image. The picturebooks with tea as the main theme were selected because of their relationship to travel and hospitality. The first offers a journey around the world as it were. Teatime around the world by Denyse Waissbluth and Chelsea O'Byrne (2020) combines dominant illustrations with very simple rhyming text that can be read to or by children. The Tiger Who Came to Tea, written and illustrated by Judith Kerr (1968), is a classic that has been translated into all the major languages and shows a particular author's approach to illustration. The Tea Party in the Woods, illustrated and written by Akiko Miyakoshi (2015), offers a Japanese sensibility to the familiar elements of classic fairy tales, that contests to preferential adult reading and intercultural complexities. Toon Tellegen's crossover book, originally titled Het verlangen van den egel, has been translated into English as The Hedgehog's Dilemma, but in Slovenian as The Hedgehog and a lonely feeling (Jež in samotni občutek), giving the book a different tone from the title onwards. What most distinguishes the Slovenian version, however, are the illustrations, which include a teapot and tea cups on almost every illustrated page, whereas this is not the case in the original or the English version. In Slovenian case, the illustration influences the preferred reading. Combining thematic and semiotic visual analysis, the presentation looks at the representation of tea culture in the construction of travel images and the idea of hospitality, including the Barthesian notion of the 'rustle of language' when only an image is present, which can open up certain dimensions that enhance the narrative of tea.
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