biography and picturebooks
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Lecture slides on children's literatureTRANSCRIPT
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Biography and Picture Books
Childrens Literature
George Brown College
November 21, 2014
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Randolph Caldecott
1846-86, British,
Childrens Book Illustrator
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Picturebook
More than the sum of the words and pictures.
Compare with Illustrated
Reflect current cultural emphasis on visual communication
Part of the pleasure lies in grasping an element in one narrative that the other does not treat.
Pictures may take longer to read than the text.
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Parallel Storytelling
When both text and illustration tell essentially the same story.
However, two page spread of picturebook tells stories that the words imply
Blueberries for Sal (Robert McCloskey), reader is aware of the mix-up between the mothers and their childrenbear and humanduring the berry hunt through illustration rather than the words.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mx1eL1reOEU
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Fish is Fish (Leo Lionni)
Picturebooks contain at least three stories: words, pictures, and their union https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crX5j5hMqqo
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Word/Image Interaction
Symmetrical: words and pictures tell same story.
Enhancing: pictures add to the meaning of text; text adds to the meaning of pictures.
Complimentary: a significant enhancement
Counterpointing: words and images present differing information.
Contradictory: challenge readers to mediate between words and pictures to understand what is being communicated.
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Group Assignment
In groups, come up with one example from Matilda and Charlottes Web that demonstrates each of the word/image interactions. Symmetrical: words and pictures tell same story. Enhancing: pictures add to the meaning of text; text
adds to the meaning of pictures. Complimentary: a significant enhancement Counterpointing: words and images present differing
information. Contradictory: challenge readers to mediate between
words and pictures to understand what is being communicated.
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Elements of Literature
matter to picturebooks Character (The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats);
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEmBTYc7Ivo Plot (The Arrival by Shaun Tan);
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAay4myoEDE Theme (The Name Jar by Yangshook Choi);
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PS5XRO1AUT4 Setting (Integral Setting; historical vs non- fiction) Point of View (Mirror by Jeannie Baker);
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBCBcAqQI_E Style and Tone (The Robot Book); Design elements;
Peritexthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9TM2wlHrWM
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Surrealism
Anthony Brown
Flotsam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNDyJHDGLH0
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Primitivism
Strega Nona by Tomie DePaolo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULUG8IIo9-8
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Realism
Henrys Freedom Box, illustrated by Kadir Nelson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGW0PwvFZ04
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Impressionism
Virgie Goes to School with Us Boys, illustrated E.B. Lewis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGWObHaXcss
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Cartoon/Pop Art
So You Want to Be President? Illustrated by David Small
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iERoMz3u1i0
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Abstract
Big Blue and Little Yellow, Lionni and Media
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKqGGYcA978
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Expressionism
Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge illustrated by Julie Vivas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usnOEnTXabw
Creepy Carrots (German Expressionism) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=godIw9z4Ogs
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Photography
A Fairys Flight by Linda Carlin
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Biography
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Biography: story of the life of an individual told by a different author
Autobiography: written by the subject.
Memoir: narrower focus and more intimate tone to memories, feelings, and emotions.
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Individuality of Subjects
The Other Mozart: The Life of the Famous Chevalier de St. George by Hugh Brewster
Joseph Bologne
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