Comments | rosaleeluann: picture books are cool because, you know, they have... pictures.

rosaleeluann

picture books are cool because, you know, they have... pictures.

Feb 20, 2013 22:43

I really want to write my research paper on picture books ( Read more... )

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checkers65477 February 23 2013, 03:21:07 UTC

I LOVE Officer Buckle and Gloria--I always get that one for baby gifts.

I'm not really up on picture books, so I don't really have any other ideas, other than the Invention of Hugo Cabret, which is for older readers but was very groundbreaking. The illustrations and the text were done in chunks so that you had to "read" both to really get the story. Very different from most illustrated books.

Also, I had lunch with Megan today and she mentioned a very very cool picture you'd drawn at the meetup. :) <3

rosaleeluann February 23 2013, 04:24:04 UTC

A very very cool picture? I drew lots of pictures.... which one was the 'cool' one she referred to? :D

checkers65477 February 27 2013, 13:58:30 UTC

Gosh, I had to think and think about this because we talked about so many things. Was it a cutout of the QoA that you could stick your head in? Or...something else? Darn.

rosaleeluann February 27 2013, 15:16:19 UTC

Haha, yes, there was a cutout thingy. We got some pretty funny pictures from that :D.

charismitaine February 24 2013, 06:13:14 UTC

A Hole is to Dig by Mercer Mayer! it's all word play that doesn't make sense without the pictures. Similarly, The King Who Rained by Fred Gwynne, which is all visual puns.

But neither of them really tell a story....for things that are more of a visual narrative...ummmmmm...the Carl books (Good Dog, Carl is the one I grew up with) are completely wordless, so the story is entirely in pictures, instead of a combination. I can't think of any! most of my picture books are longer, with big chunks of text, but I'll poke around my shelves and see if something jumps out at me!

rosaleeluann February 24 2013, 07:03:49 UTC

Thanks! Those look like some fun ones to take a look at.

filkferengi March 4 2013, 21:48:59 UTC

Have you looked at Marcia Williams yet? Her _Tales From Shakespeare_ series is fun, but her _Chaucer's Canterbury Tales_ & _Ancient Egypt_ are my favorites. The text is accessible & engaging, but it's the illustrations & side commentaries that really make it.