Picture Books for Looking and Learning Awakening Visual Perceptions through the Art of Children's Books

Subjects:

• Education » Childhood & Elementary Education
• Library & Information Science » School & Children's Librarianship
• Literature » Children's & Young Adult Literature
• The Arts » Art

Reviews:

• Picture Books for Looking and Learning is educational, enjoyable and thorough. This work is the answer for the teacher or librarian, or anyone else for that matter, who has wanted so to share the love and artistry of a picture book with another but did not know how!....critiques of 43 picture books are arranged by grade level.It is not only the content of these analyses but the manner in which they are written that makes this work outstanding. These critiques are written in such a way that a reader can actually read each with the picture book in hand. The reader is cued when to turn the page.
  —Public Library Quarterly
• Use this for story hours and lend it to teachers for whole language activities.
  —School Librarian's Workshop
• ...helps librarians and teachers introduce children to the concepts and aesthetics of art appreciation.
  —American Libraries

Table of Contents:

• Introduction v
• Chapter 1: The Anatomy of a Book 1
• Chapter 2: Media and Techniques 5
• Chapter 3: Preschool into Kindergarten 15
• Happy Birthday Moon by Frank Asch 16
• The Snowman by Raymond Briggs 19
• Have You Seen My Cat? by Eric Carle 23
• Parade by Donald Crews 26
• Fish Eyes: A Book You Can Count On by Lois Ehlert 30
• Alfie Gets in First by Shirley Hughes 33
• The Quilt by Ann Jonas 37
• Frederick by Leo Lionni 40
• We're Going on a Bear Hunt retold by Michael Rosen, illustrated by Helen Oxenbury 44
• Junglewalk by Nancy Tafuri 48
• Chapter 4: From Kindergarten through Second Grade 51
• Strega Nona by Tomie dePaola 52
• Simon's Book by Henrik Drescher 56
• Hey, Al by Arthur Yorinks, illustrated by Richard Egielski 60
• The Very Worst Monster by Pat Hutchins 64
• The Day the Goose Got Loose by Reeve Lindbergh, illustrated by Steven Kellogg 68
• I Want a Dog by Dayal Kaur Khalsa 72
• 17 Kings and 42 Elephants by Margaret Mahy, pictures by Patricia MacCarthy 76
• Appendix A: Other Cultures in Recent Picture Books 197Appendix B: Picture Books for Experienced Evaluators 199Appendix C: Additional Resources for Looking and Learning 203Index 205