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A Picture Book Primer Understanding and Using Picture Books
Denise I. Matulka
ISBN: 1-59158-441-8
ISBN-13: 978-1-59158-441-4
328 pages
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Publication: 9/30/2008
List Price: $40.00 (UK Sterling Price: £27.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Paperback
Trim Size: 7 x 10
Subjects: Reviews:
  • "[Matulka's] discussion of the art terms and techniques related to picture books is especially helpful for readers who approach picture books from more of a literary rather than an artistic background."
    —Children's Literature Association     00/00/00
  • "Matulka's straightforward approach and easy tone make this book accessible and appealing to anyone interested in picture books, including librarians, teachers, and aspiring picture book writers. This book would be an excellent supplement for children's literature classes."
    —Reference & User Services Quarterly     Summer 2009
Description: Everything you want to know about picture books can be found in this simple and straightforward guide. After defining the picture book and describing its history and technological evolution, the author helps you better understand and appreciate picture books by describing how they're made-their anatomy, types of illustration, layouts, design elements, and typography-various types of picture books (genres, formats, styles), how picture books work (the art of the story), and how they relate to child development and literacy. Picture book reviews, building a collection, using picture books with various age groups, and issues such as multicultural literature, classics, and controversial titles are some of the other topics covered.
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1: What is a Picture Book?
    Chapter 2: Anatomy of a Picture Book: Supporting Parts (Paratexts)
    Chapter 3: Anatomy of a Picture Book: Picture Space, Design, Medium and Style
    Chapter 4: Format or Genre?
    Chapter 5: The Art of the Story
    Chapter 6: Development, Literacy, and Picture Books
    Chapter 7: Picture Book Issue
    Chapter 8: Exploring and Using Picture Books
About the Author: Denise I. Matulka is librarian and archivist for the Lincoln Journal Star Newspapers in Nebraska. She hasi worked as an Early Childhood educator, a Youth Services Librarian, and an America Reads Coordinator. She is also the author of Picture This: Picture Books for Young Adults (Greenwood Publishing Group, 1997), and in 1999, she created a website dedicated to picture books-www.picturingbooks.com, which this book is based on.
LCC Class: 741
PDF Catalogs:
LU Public Library Spring 2008.pdf
LU School Library Spring 2008.pdf
LU Academic Library Spring 2008.pdf
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