Angela Yannicopoulou is a Professor of Children’s Literature at the Department of Preschool Education at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. She is interested in visual literacy, the teaching of children’s literature, ideology and mainly in the study of picturebooks as a multimodal genre. She has published many papers and books: Aesopic Fables and Children: Form and Function (Liverpool: Manutius Press, 1993, in English), Contemporary Picturebook (Papadopoulos, 2008, in Greek), Picturebooks in Preschool Education (Patakis, 2016, in Greek).