An ideal way to understand multimodal approaches is through texts that are familiar and readily available to all ages – postmodern picture books. The picture book demonstrates how narrative is structured and how literary features such as theme, plot and character, can be revealed using various devices. Evolving Pedagogies provides an explicit knowledge base about the semiotic systems (linguistic, visual, audio, gestural and spatial) to enable teachers to talk about and examine multimodal texts with their students.