The Mighty Picturebook: Providing a Plethora of Possibilities

Authors

  • Judi Moreillon

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5860/cal.15.3.17

Abstract

Picturebooks are books in which both words and illustrations are essential to the story’s meaning. . . . In a true picturebook, the illustrations are integral to the reader’s experience of the book and the story would be diminished or confusing without the illustrations.”1 Readers may agree with this definition, but that is not the end of the conversation. Picturebook readers continue to engage in discussions in the library world and children’s literature field about the audiences for, formats of, and uses of picturebooks in the literacy lives of readers, listeners, and viewers.

Author Biography

Judi Moreillon

Judi Moreillon, MLS, PhD, is a Literacies and Libraries Consultant who served as a school librarian in preK-12 schools for thirteen years and as a librarian educator for twenty-one. She is the author of professional books on co-teaching reading comprehension strategies and has published two picturebooks, Read to Me/Vamos a leer (Starbright Books, 2004) and Ready and Waiting for You (Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, 2013). Visit her online at http://storytrail.com.

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Published

2017-09-28

Issue

Vol. 15 No. 3 (2017): Fall

Section

Features

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