Show 502: Picture Perfect: The Art of Illustration
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Getting the Most out of Picture Books
Reading Is Fundamental
http://www.rif.org/parents/articles/picturebooks.mspx
This article shows parents how to use picture book illustrations to engage children and enhance the reading experience.
The Gingerbread Man Meets Dali: Postmodernism and the Picture Book
Juliet O’Conor
http://www.statelibrary.vic.gov.au/slv/children/
postmodernism
This article by the Victoria (Canada) State Library discusses how postmodern children’s authors and illustrators have turned traditional fairy tales and nursery rhymes upside down.
How to Look At Picture Books
Wally Hastings
http://www.northern.edu/hastingw/illusbks.htm
“A picture book contains three stories: the story of the words, the story told by the pictures, and the story that comes from combining the other two.’ Hastings’ article explores this premise.
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Using Visual Images to Improve Comprehension for Middle School Struggling Readers
Anne Nielsen Hibbing and Joan L. Rankin-Erickson
http://www.reading.org/publications/rt/rt0305.html (Note: Printing this article featured in the May 2003 issue of The Reading Teacher involves payment of a fee)
This article discusses teacher and student drawings in the classroom, illustrations in texts, picture books, and movies as external image-based tools that support reading comprehension.
Picture Books with Text and Picture Inconsistencies
Connie Ann Kirk
http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~kvander/ChildrenLit
/PictureInconsistencies.htm
In this article Kirk points out inconsistencies between texts and illustrations, some of which are intentional in the postmodern sense, and some of which are not.
Picturing Childhood: Illustrated Children’s Books from University of California Collections, 1550-1990
Cynthia Burlingham
http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/special/childhood/
pictur.htm
Burlingham provides an excellent synthesis of the history of children’s book illustration
Postmodern Picture Books: Not Only for Kids
Neni Sta. Romana Cruz
http://www.geocities.com/scbwiphilasia/2003may17.htm
A children’s book illustrator presents a workshop on postmodernism
Visual Literacy in Schools
Keith Lightbody
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~leemshs/visual.htm
This article makes a case for bringing visual literacy into the school curriculum.
What do I See? What do I Think? What do I Wonder? (STW): A Visual Literacy Strategy to Help Emergent Readers Focus on Storybook Illustrations
Janet C. Richards and Nancy A. Anderson
http://www.reading.org/publications/rt/rt0302.html (Note: Printing this article featured in the February 2003 issue of The Reading Teacher involves payment of a fee)
The authors of this article offer a teaching strategy for helping young children derive meaning from book illustrations.
Whaz Up With our Books? Changing Picture Book Codes and Teaching Implications
Bette P. Goldstone
http://www.reading.org/publications/rt/rt0112.html (Note: Printing this article featured in the December 2001/January 2002 issue of The Reading Teacher involves payment of a fee)
Children's books change with the culture around them. Understanding postmodern picture books helps children make sense of a complex world.
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