ABSTRACT A growing force in children’s literature, public figures’ crossover picturebooks are designed to appeal to adults and children alike. This study takes a critical look at the crossover picturebooks of John Oliver and Stephen Colbert. As forms of parodic advocacy, their books use the doubled worlds of parody to invite audiences into corrective spaces, highlighting the influence at work in the seemingly persuasion free media of children’s books, while simplifying and expanding the issues at stake through a multimodal form of activism. In particular, we add to the literature on political parody a focus on the potential for such discourses to function metanoically – alternating between original and parodied texts to engage in political revisions while forwarding moral visions on behalf of disadvantaged others. Parody and metanoia jointly invite engagement in the hope of doing something different and restoring political options through re-energized design.

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睡前故事大战：作为戏仿宣传的儿童图画书

摘要 作为儿童文学中日益增长的力量，公众人物的跨界图画书旨在吸引成人和儿童。这项研究对约翰·奥利弗 (John Oliver) 和斯蒂芬·科尔伯特 (Stephen Colbert) 的交叉图画书进行了批判性研究。作为模仿宣传的形式，他们的书利用模仿的双重世界邀请观众进入纠正空间，突出儿童书籍看似无说服力的媒体在工作中的影响，同时通过多模态的激进主义简化和扩展所涉问题. 特别是，我们在关于政治戏仿的文献中增加了对此类话语功能的潜力的关注——在原始文本和模仿文本之间交替进行政治修正，同时代表弱势群体转发道德愿景。