Picture Books

I thought it was really interesting how we discussed picture books today in class. I think everyone as a child loved picture books, and I know I still love them today. It was neat to really analyze them and show how the illustrations and the placement of the text can really impact the story. In picture books, the text and the illustration share space equally and neither one overshadows the other. In the Russel text it discusses how picture books rely a lot on repetitive patterns, so it allows children to keep up with it easily. Picture books also contain very simple plots, but as children get older the books will become more complicated. The protagonists are usually children or animals and the language is very carefully chosen. Children also rely strongly on dialog, so that is a major part in the picture books as well.