What's in the Picture?

What's in the Picture? Responding to Illustrations in Picture Books

Janet Evans1998
`The book will be of interest to anyone sharing pictorial texts with children, professionally or privately' - School Librarian `The collection, like the texts it analyzes, is rich and variable and early years educators will have to be selective in the papers they concentrate on, but there are some gems to be found.... It would appear that there are many things in the picture - this is an exciting start!' - TACTYC Illustrations are one of the most important cueing systems which children can draw on to help them make sense of print. This book covers many issues involved in using picture books: their role in early literacy; in intellectual and emotional development; their use as a l
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