Open AccessThe Mighty Picturebook: Providing a Plethora of Possibilities
Author(s) -
Judi Moreillon
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
children and libraries
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2374-7641
pISSN - 1542-9806
DOI - 10.5860/cal.15.3.17
Subject(s) - picture books , meaning (existential) , conversation , literacy , literature , visual arts , art , aesthetics , linguistics , psychology , philosophy , epistemology , pedagogy
Picturebooks are books in which both words and illustrations are essential to the story’s meaning. . . . In a true picturebook, the illustrations are integral to the reader’s experience of the book and the story would be diminished or confusing without the illustrations.”1 Readers may agree with this definition, but that is not the end of the conversation. Picturebook readers continue to engage in discussions in the library world and children’s literature field about the audiences for, formats of, and uses of picturebooks in the literacy lives of readers, listeners, and viewers.