A Picture Book Primer

Price: $40.00
ISBN13: 9781591584414
ISBN10: 1591584418
Book code: LU4418
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Paperback | 328 pages
Publication Date: 09/30/2008

DESCRIPTION

Everything you want to know about picture books can be found in this simple and straightforward guide. After defining the picture book and describing its history and technological evolution, the author helps you better understand and appreciate picture books by describing how they're made-their anatomy, types of illustration, layouts, design elements, and typography-various types of picture books (genres, formats, styles), how picture books work (the art of the story), and how they relate to child development and literacy. Picture book reviews, building a collection, using picture books with various age groups, and issues such as multicultural literature, classics, and controversial titles are some of the other topics covered.

Everything you want to know about picture books can be found in this simple and handy guide?from what they are and how they evolved, to how they are designed and put together and how to use them.

CONTENTS

Chapter 1: What is a Picture Book?

Chapter 2: Anatomy of a Picture Book: Supporting Parts (Paratexts)

Chapter 3: Anatomy of a Picture Book: Picture Space, Design, Medium and Style

Chapter 4: Format or Genre?

Chapter 5: The Art of the Story

Chapter 6: Development, Literacy, and Picture Books

Chapter 7: Picture Book Issue

Chapter 8: Exploring and Using Picture Books

Denise I. Matulka is librarian and archivist for the Lincoln Journal Star Newspapers in Nebraska. She has worked as an Early Childhood educator, a Youth Services Librarian, and an America Reads Coordinator. She is also the author of Picture This: Picture Books for Young Adults (Greenwood Publishing Group, 1997), and in 1999, she created a website dedicated to picture books-www.picturingbooks.com, which this book is based on.