Awards

• Winner of 2021 Book Award from the International Research Society for Children's Literature (IRSCL) 2021 (Canada)
• Winner of 2021 Book Award from the International Research Society for Children’s Literature (IRSCL) 2021 (Canada)
• Winner of 2021 Canadian Association of Slavists Taylor & Francis Book Prize 2021 (Canada)

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In compelling prose, Megan Swift offers a kaleidoscopic vision of Soviet history through her focus on images that shift with the times at points of tension between the present and the past. With firm scholarly grounding, Picturing the Page closely examines visual detail and contextualizes works within the ideological intricacies of key periods to uncover and explain telling Soviet rereadings of classic texts. - Sara Pankenier Weld, Associate Professor of Germanic and Slavic Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara With impressive scholarship, Picturing the Page highlights both Russian and English-language materials, including critical monographs, periodicals, and rare illustrated books from the early revolutionary period. - Larissa Rudova, Professor of German and Russian, Pomona College

Megan Swift's Picturing the Page is a welcome new addition to the research of illustrated children's books and children's reading. Picturing the Page ambitiously seeks to reconstruct the relationship between illustrated children's books and children's reading in the context of the Soviet literature curriculum and reading culture. -- Larissa Rudova, Pomona College and Marina Balina, Wesleyan University * <em>The Russian Review</em> * Swift's work is invaluable to an understanding of Soviet visual culture, thanks especially to its extensive illustrations, but it will also be of great interest to scholars of children's literature. -- James H. McGavran III, Kenyon College * <i>Children's Literature Association Quarterly</i> * Picturing the Page is an example of thorough interdisciplinary research written in an engaging manner, well supported with wonderful images. -- Natallia Kabiak, University of Melbourne * <em>Australian Slavonic and East European Studies</em> * Car c'est bien un autre merite de cet ouvrage original, riche et stimulant, que d'ouvrir vers differents prolongements, alors meme qu'il constitue en soi une reelle avancee dans la recherche sur le livre illustre pour enfants de l'epoque sovietique, tant du point de vue des objets etudies que de la demarche adoptee. -- Cecile Pichon-Bonin, CNRS * <em>Cahiers du monde russe</em> *

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Megan Swift is an associate professor in the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies at the University of Victoria.

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