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Children Reading Pictures: Interpreting Visual Texts - Arizpe, Evelyn, and Styles, Morag
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This book describes the fascinating results of a two year study of children's responses to contemporary picturebooks. Children of primary school age, from a range of backgrounds, read and discussed books by the award-winning artists, Anthony Browne and Satoshi Kitamura. They then made their own drawings in response to the books. The authors found that children are sophisticated readers of visual texts, and are able to make sense of complex images on literal, visual and metaphorical levels. They are able to understand ...

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Children Reading Pictures: Interpreting Visual Texts 2002, Routledge, London, England

ISBN-13: 9780415275774

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