Picture Books

Word and Image: From Binarism to Dialogism

by Farzaneh Doosti

منتشرشده در نقدنامه هنر، شماره 2، 1391

Telling Stories Using Children's Visual Language

by Hafiz Aziz Ahmad

In the proceedings of IASDR 2009: Design | Rigor & Relevance, Seoul, 2009. Co-authored with Prof. Lee Soo-Min (Woosong University, Rep. of Korea).

Children have their own unique way in telling stories visually. By their intuition, somehow they manage to invent... more Children have their own unique way in telling stories visually. By their intuition, somehow they manage to invent various methods which are unique. The way they draw does not fit the aesthetic values and logic that is seen through adult's eyes, especially the perspective theory. They would naturally emphasize on how to deliver they stories to others. The medium in which this fact could be clearly seen is through children's drawing.

Primadi Tabrani, professor from ITB, Indonesia, had conducted extensive research regarding the children's drawing and the way to read the message within. Tabrani described this phenomenon as children's visual language. Furthermore, Tabrani researched the relation between children's drawing and visual language of the world. He concluded that many ancient art artifacts from artist from the Eastern part of the world had the same approach in conveying their message with children's drawing and visual language. Tabrani described this finding as the Eastern Visual Language.

The same approach nowadays could be found in various illustrations in children's picture book. Adapting drawings that emphasize on stories with visuals that resembles children's drawing make these picture books more suitable to their target audience. Furthermore, they create a unique visual storytelling that carries the ancient tradition from the Eastern world to the present day.

Focusing on picture books from Indonesia and Korea, this paper is intended to analyze how present day illustrators managed to adapt this distinctive visual language and how to read their drawings using children's visual language, by looking through their works.

What Were These Characters Thinking?! Using Sufi Tales to Cultivate Critical Thinking in Children (co-author)

by Jurgis (George) Brakas

The purpose of this essay is to help elementary school teachers use picture storybooks to develop their students’... more The purpose of this essay is to help elementary school teachers use picture storybooks to develop their students’ critical thinking skills, arguably the most important skill students can learn. To achieve that purpose, we selected four delightful Sufi tales written for Western children, tales in which the thinking of the characters has gone or does go awry. Each story raises its own perplexing question: Why would an old woman insist an eagle is a pigeon? How could five men—in the same situation and confronted with the same object—arrive at five widely different and incorrect identifications of that object? How does a chicken frighten a group of townspeople to the point where they want to escape from the earth? Why would villagers be terrified by a fruit? These are all questions that involve critical thinking issues. The framework we use for analyzing the stories is a modified version of Paul and Elder’s Elements of Thought and the work of the Institute for the Study of Human Knowledge. Our approach is to summarize the stories; to systematically apply our framework to each story, thereby providing teachers with a tool for helping children comprehend them; to offer, on that basis, a brief, narrative account of the significance of each story, indicating in what way the thinking of the characters has gone awry and what principle of thinking would have prevented it; and, finally, to add a few open-ended questions to illustrate how the principles of thinking in each story can be applied to the personal lives of the children. Our approach integrates teaching philosophy and reading comprehension in a way that makes it fit naturally into the elementary school curriculum, literacy activities being an integral part of it. What the children learn can serve as a foundation for them as they begin to develop a system of thought for decision-making and problem-solving that will serve them well throughout their lives.

The early growth of symbolic understanding and use: A tribute to Ann Brown.

by Patricia Ganea

In Campione, J. C., Metz, K. E., & Palincsar, A. S.(Eds.), Children’s learning in the laboratory and in the classroom: Essays in honor of Ann Brown. New Jersey, Lawrence Erlbaum & Associates, 2007.

Less is More: The effect of manipulative features on children’s learning from picture books.

by Patricia Ganea

Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology (2010)

Young children's learning and transfer of biological information from picture books to real animals.

by Patricia Ganea

Child Development (2011)

Toddlers’ referential understanding of pictures.

by Patricia Ganea

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology (2009)

Transfer between picture books and the real world by very young children.

by Patricia Ganea

Journal of Cognition and Development (2008).

An analysis of Year 7 and Year 10 girls’ responses to Shaun Tan’s 'The Red Tree'

by Richard Shakeshaft

Written as part of the requirements for an MEd in Critical Approaches to Children's Literature. August 2010

Reading other people’s minds through word and image

by Maria Nikolajeva

Children's literature in education 2012:2

The articles considers how emotions can be conveyed through the interaction of word and image in picturebooks... more The articles considers how emotions can be conveyed through the interaction of word and image in picturebooks addressed to young readers. The theoretical framework employed in the article develops ideas from cognitive literary theory adapting it to the specific conditions in which there is a significant difference between the sender's and the recipient's cognitive level. The concept of emotion ekphrasis is used to demonstrate the various ways of representing emotions, and a special attention is paid to the issues of mind-reading, empathy and other aspects of recipients' affective engagement. The theoretical argument is illustrated by picturebooks by Max Velthuijs, Shaun Tan, Anthony Browne, and Maurice Sendak.

‘Unlikely Normal' - Issues of cultural awareness and empathy in children's reactions to Shaun Tan's Eric

by Hannah Love

Essay 2 of my Critical Approaches to Children's Literature MPhil

An investigation to see if young children could pick up on issues of cultural awareness, empathy and alienation in... more An investigation to see if young children could pick up on issues of cultural awareness, empathy and alienation in Shaun Tan's 'Eric.' This includes the study of picturebook theory, an analysis of Tan's book and interviews with 5 children. Appendices and interview transcripts are included

Primal Postcards_w_photos

by Mary Galbraith

Getting empowered through their empowerment: Experience of an Interactive Storytelling Project with Undocumented Children in Iran

by Setareh Masoumbeiki

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In November 2010, after observing a community school in South Tehran for over a year, we decided to develop a project... more In November 2010, after observing a community school in South Tehran for over a year, we decided to develop a project for the street, working and refugee children in order to enhance their thinking skills and eventually impact their school performance. We started our work with thirty girls and boys from 7 to 12 years old, and took two classes as our pilot study. Using basics of critical teaching and learning methodologies we mainly focused on girl-child education, seeking to create strong role-models for girls, as well as for boys.

Eventually, ten themes emerged from the stories that were told by children. All these stories were based on social issues that they face every day in the school, community and at home. By having the main goal as to create awareness for the reduction of gender disparity and social exclusion on one hand, and support social mobilization on the other hand, children’s stories were combined and ten stories were created.

Reading other people’s minds through word and image

by Maria Nikolajeva

This paper is in Portuguese. A revised English version will hopefully appear soon.

Ein Ereignis – fünf Blickwinkel. Multiperspektivisches Erzählen im Bilderbuch "Was ist da passiert?" von Bruno Heitz und Béatrice Vincent.

by Michael Staiger

in: Sache – Wort – Zahl 121/2011, S. 29-37

Die Erzählformen von Bilderbüchern sind in den letzten Jahren immer vielfältiger und komplexer geworden. Das 2009 für... more Die Erzählformen von Bilderbüchern sind in den letzten Jahren immer vielfältiger und komplexer geworden. Das 2009 für den Deutschen Jugendliteraturpreis nominierte Bilderbuch „Was ist da passiert?“ erzählt seine Geschichte aus fünf verschiedenen Blickwinkeln und regt deshalb dazu an, über Erzählperspektiven zu reflektieren. Gleichzeitig bereitet es als Sachbilderbuch sehr anschaulich die unterschiedlichen Wahrnehmungsweisen von Tieren auf. Im Unterrichtsmodell für das 3. oder 4. Schuljahr wird aufgezeigt, wie eine Auseinandersetzung mit den verschiedenen „tierischen“ Blickwinkeln in der Grundschule aussehen kann.

Meditation on The Polar Express

by Mary Galbraith

Originally published in the German children's literature journal Interjuli

What Must I Give Up in Order to Grow Up? The Great War and Childhood Survival Strategies in Transatlantic Picture Books

by Mary Galbraith

Agony in the Kindergarten: Indelible German Images in American Picture Books

by Mary Galbraith

Sorry about page 133--I'll rescan this in the near future. This article was published in _Text, Culture and National Identity in Children’s Literature: International Seminar on Children’s Literature, Pure and Applied_, Jean Webb editor, University College Worcester, England June 14-19, 1999.
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" Goodnight Nobody" Revisited: Using an Attachment Perspective to Study Picture Books about Bedtime

by Mary Galbraith

The Stranger: A Classic Reviewed

by JC Brown

LIS 6510, Children's literature, picture books, illustrations, illustrator, Chris Van Allsburg

Wagons loaded with pumpkins, soybean crops yellowing, tillage work in the already harvested wheat fields, and of... more Wagons loaded with pumpkins, soybean crops yellowing, tillage work in the already harvested wheat fields, and of course, the availability of fresh apple cider traditionally signals the advent of autumn for those living in an agricultural community. Not having ever read The Stranger by Chris Van Allsburg, but being familiar with his beautifully rendered illustrations in other works such as Jumanji and The Polar Express, this piece was selected for review due to its agricultural and autumnal themes.