How Picture Books Work By Nikolajeva And Carole Scott
In the book How Picture books Work, Maria Nikolajeva and Carole Scott explore the lively relationship between the words and the imagery in children's literature. It is explained in their work that the children’s picture book is a form of literature and culture that prepares children for other media of communication. (Nikolajeva & Scott, 2001)
‘’The unique character of picture books as an art form is based on the combination of two levels of communication, the visual and the verbal. Making use of semiotic terminology we can say that picture books communicate by means of two separate sets of signs, the iconic and the conventional.’’ (Nikolajeva & Scott, 2001, p. 1)
Nikolajeva and Scott focus mainly on the relationship between the words and …show more content…
Hurst explained in detail the importance of visual literacy and picture books when teaching children.
‘’As a special needs teacher it is important to encourage children to look at the information within an image whilst attempting to read and understand a story. It is a common occurrence where a child may find it quite difficult to read a particular sentence. For example, in the early stages of the Oxford Reading Tree scheme, visually the illustration takes up 2/3 of each page. When attempting to read a sentence it is often the subject of each sentence, which tends to be the word a child struggles with. (Chris Hurst, Email 2015, Appendix)
It is explained in the quote that the main focus in picture books from the ‘’early stages of the oxford reading tree scheme’’ that the illustrations within these picture books takes up ‘’2/3 of each page’’ the illustration provides a visual accompaniment to words, a child can understand a meaning of a word or of a sentence from the dynamic relationship between words and pictures. The pictures will be used as a visual aid for children as the words themselves become pictorial elements, which was also explained in the writing of William Moebius, he discuesses the importance of the size of the image in comparison to the text and the page, the use of colours and the position of both the imagery and the text. (Salisbury & Styles, Moebius, 2013, p. 89,
‘’The unique character of picture books as an art form is based on the combination of two levels of communication, the visual and the verbal. Making use of semiotic terminology we can say that picture books communicate by means of two separate sets of signs, the iconic and the conventional.’’ (Nikolajeva & Scott, 2001, p. 1)
Nikolajeva and Scott focus mainly on the relationship between the words and …show more content…
Hurst explained in detail the importance of visual literacy and picture books when teaching children.
‘’As a special needs teacher it is important to encourage children to look at the information within an image whilst attempting to read and understand a story. It is a common occurrence where a child may find it quite difficult to read a particular sentence. For example, in the early stages of the Oxford Reading Tree scheme, visually the illustration takes up 2/3 of each page. When attempting to read a sentence it is often the subject of each sentence, which tends to be the word a child struggles with. (Chris Hurst, Email 2015, Appendix)
It is explained in the quote that the main focus in picture books from the ‘’early stages of the oxford reading tree scheme’’ that the illustrations within these picture books takes up ‘’2/3 of each page’’ the illustration provides a visual accompaniment to words, a child can understand a meaning of a word or of a sentence from the dynamic relationship between words and pictures. The pictures will be used as a visual aid for children as the words themselves become pictorial elements, which was also explained in the writing of William Moebius, he discuesses the importance of the size of the image in comparison to the text and the page, the use of colours and the position of both the imagery and the text. (Salisbury & Styles, Moebius, 2013, p. 89,