From: Maia <maia>
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 12:54:37 -0400

What a bummer that so many glorious picture books are marketed and labeled as for-kids-only. What are we as adults losing here? The unique beauty that is created when text -- often poetic -- combines with paint, pencil or pen, has an impact on the reader that is hardly limitable to children. I am surely as moved by such a work of art as is my daughter or nieces...

I am thinking of two books that I reviewed lately, by Lynn Plourde & Greg Couch and <Child of Faerie, Child of Earth> by Jane Yolen & Jane Dyer. I find the experience of reading these books as precious as that from their adult textual or visual counterparts -- and only in children's picture books do we commonly find the two combined.

I wonder, how can we reawaken adult audiences (and marketers, publishers, booksellers!) to the treasures "hidden" in picture books and the picture book format?

Maia
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Received on Fri 12 May 2000 11:54:37 AM CDT