ENGL 3514 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Richard Scarry, Typesetting
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Any book that anticipates a pre literate audience whose words and pictures. Combine to make new meaning, different from illustrated books. Generally meant to be read aloud, this creates a triangular relationship, chaperoned information, important to recognize how much an adult is involved in the process. Symmetrical: words and pictures have the same message, common in concept books teaching reading, Complementary: words and images are interdependent and fill each other"s narrative gaps, one doesn"t make sense without the other. Contradictory: sense of irony, reinforce humor, establishing a tension between what a character knows or sees and what is presented to the reader. Wordless picture books still have a relationship between words and pictures, and is possibly even more reinforced in the absence of words or the implied words. Concept books: books for naming things, richard scarry. Contrast books: type of concept book, tend to be comparing books, opposites. Toy books, focus less on literacy and more on interactivity,
