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The Grown-Up's Guide to Picture Books / Lara Cain Gray, Lorena Carrington, and Timothy Ide.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Gray, Lara Cain, author.
Carrington, Lorena, author.
Ide, Timothy, author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Books and reading.
Picture books for children.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (74 pages)
Edition:
First edition.
Place of Publication:
Rundle Mall, SA : MidnightSun Publishing Pty Ltd, [2024]
Summary:
The Grown-Up’s Guide to Picture Books by Lara Cain Gray offers an insightful exploration into the world of picture books, emphasizing their importance beyond childhood reading. It guides readers through the various storytelling structures and the strategic use of illustrations and text in picture books. The book serves as a resource for authors, illustrators, educators, and readers, providing classroom activities and encouraging a lifelong appreciation of picture books. It highlights the complexity involved in creating picture books, where every word and image is meticulously chosen to convey meaningful stories. This guide is designed to deepen the understanding of picture books' role in literacy and emotional development, while also inspiring creativity and a love for literature. Generated by AI.
Contents:
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Introduction
What is a picture book?
A is for Animals
B is for Baddies
C is for Covers
D is for Dialogue
E is for Endpapers
F is for Food
G is for Genre
H is for Heroes
I is for Illustrations
J is for Joy
K is for Kindness (and other virtues)
L is for Language
M is for Magic
N is for Narrative Structure
O is for Opening Lines
P is for Parents (and carers, and the lack thereof…)
Q is for Queens (and kings and other authority figures)
R is for Repetition
S is for Spread
T is for Title
U is for Underlying Meanings
V is for Versions
W is for White Space
X is for Xenophobia (and difference and diversity) Generated by AI.
Notes:
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Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
Description based on print version record.
ISBN:
9781922858511
192285851X
OCLC:
1455758965

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