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From: Megan Lambert <lambertmegan>
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 07:14:56 -0800 (PST)
One way to think about the differences between picture books and beginning reader books is to think of the usual/standard/ideal/intended picture book reading experience including three parties:
the picture book
the reader
the listener/viewer(s) And the usual/standard/ideal/intended beginning reader book experience as a private experience between:
the emergent/newly independent reader and
the book
Here's how I think and teach about this, drawing upon KT's work and others':
The picture book includes words and pictures that are interdependent: words leave spaces for the pictures to step in a vice versa. Therefore, in the triangualr relationship that I note above, the reader of the picture book reads the words out loud and the listener/viewer hears these words while looking at the corresponding images. This creates what British scholar Jane Doonan calls "the composite text"--the merging of the visual and the verbal to create a joint meaning in the mind of the listener/viewer.
This is contrasted with the beginning reader book experience noted above, in which an emergent or newly independent reader independetly decodes text with the support of corresponding images. The focus here is on the words and on pictures supporting words, and the fact that the reader is decoding and must look away from the picture to do so creates a different interaction between word and image--they are not simultaneous partners in making meaning as words and images are in the picture book experience.
The language of a beginning reader book is necessarily controlled--lots of compound words and sight words, large font, short sentence length, or at least short line length, lots of white space on page openings, etc. This is not so in the picture book, where illustration can bleed off the page, language is not controlled to meet the needs of an emergent reader, etc.
This is not to say that children can't get a lot out of reading a picture books independently (when they are able), and this doesn't address the wordless picture book, or the ALA's omission of attention to the writing of picture books in its awards, or the achievement of beginning reader art and its deserved place in the Geisel Award. But I think that creating an award for a different category of book begs the question, what makes this category different? This is my stab at making some sense of it all.
Megan Lambert Literature & Outreach Coordinator The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art
www.picturebookart.org
Kathleen Horning <horning at education.wisc.edu> wrote: Elivia, Geisel and Zolotow are two completely different awards given out by two different organizations. The Charlotte Zolotow is for outstanding writing in a book for children for birth through age seven. While some of these books are easy to read, its intent is really to recognize books that are great read alouds for young children. The Zolotow Award has been given out for eight years, under the auspices of the Cooperative Children's Book Center at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The Theodor Seuss Geisel is a brand new award, in its first year this year, and it's for easy-to-read books for children who are just learning to read. It's named for Dr Seuss because he was one of the first to write excellent books of this sort, beginning with "The Cat in the Hat," published in 1957. The Geisel Award is given out by the Association for Library Service to Children of the American Library Association. You can find more info about it here: http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/awardsscholarships/literaryawds/drseussaward/DrSeussAward.htm
Hope that helps.
KTH
Kathleen T. Horning, Director Cooperative Children's Book Center University of Wisconsin-School of Education 4290 Helen C. White Hall 600 North Park St. Madison, WI 53706
horning at education.wisc.edu Voice: 608-263-3721 Fax: 608-262-4933 www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/
>>> elivia 02/06/06 10:23 AM >>>
I have recently become a CCBC member and would like the email address
and website to learn more about the Geisel Award, as I am a children's author/illustrator and am very happy to recently have received HIGH RECOMMENDATION from the Charlotte Zolotov Award Committee for NO HAIRCUT TODAY! THis is written both for the very young, and as (I hope) an easy reader. Actually if any of you know it, as educators, I would value your feedback on it as an easy reader. I am not to up on whom this category is actually for. I had imagined beginning readers for this. THen watching a few beginners try it, I realized that some words were
sticky. I am interested in the Geisel award as I have a few similar level books coming out. What is the difference between this award category and the Charlotte Zolotov award category, which is 0-7 year olds? Sincerely, Elivia Savadier.
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Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 07:14:56 -0800 (PST)
One way to think about the differences between picture books and beginning reader books is to think of the usual/standard/ideal/intended picture book reading experience including three parties:
the picture book
the reader
the listener/viewer(s) And the usual/standard/ideal/intended beginning reader book experience as a private experience between:
the emergent/newly independent reader and
the book
Here's how I think and teach about this, drawing upon KT's work and others':
The picture book includes words and pictures that are interdependent: words leave spaces for the pictures to step in a vice versa. Therefore, in the triangualr relationship that I note above, the reader of the picture book reads the words out loud and the listener/viewer hears these words while looking at the corresponding images. This creates what British scholar Jane Doonan calls "the composite text"--the merging of the visual and the verbal to create a joint meaning in the mind of the listener/viewer.
This is contrasted with the beginning reader book experience noted above, in which an emergent or newly independent reader independetly decodes text with the support of corresponding images. The focus here is on the words and on pictures supporting words, and the fact that the reader is decoding and must look away from the picture to do so creates a different interaction between word and image--they are not simultaneous partners in making meaning as words and images are in the picture book experience.
The language of a beginning reader book is necessarily controlled--lots of compound words and sight words, large font, short sentence length, or at least short line length, lots of white space on page openings, etc. This is not so in the picture book, where illustration can bleed off the page, language is not controlled to meet the needs of an emergent reader, etc.
This is not to say that children can't get a lot out of reading a picture books independently (when they are able), and this doesn't address the wordless picture book, or the ALA's omission of attention to the writing of picture books in its awards, or the achievement of beginning reader art and its deserved place in the Geisel Award. But I think that creating an award for a different category of book begs the question, what makes this category different? This is my stab at making some sense of it all.
Megan Lambert Literature & Outreach Coordinator The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art
www.picturebookart.org
Kathleen Horning <horning at education.wisc.edu> wrote: Elivia, Geisel and Zolotow are two completely different awards given out by two different organizations. The Charlotte Zolotow is for outstanding writing in a book for children for birth through age seven. While some of these books are easy to read, its intent is really to recognize books that are great read alouds for young children. The Zolotow Award has been given out for eight years, under the auspices of the Cooperative Children's Book Center at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The Theodor Seuss Geisel is a brand new award, in its first year this year, and it's for easy-to-read books for children who are just learning to read. It's named for Dr Seuss because he was one of the first to write excellent books of this sort, beginning with "The Cat in the Hat," published in 1957. The Geisel Award is given out by the Association for Library Service to Children of the American Library Association. You can find more info about it here: http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/awardsscholarships/literaryawds/drseussaward/DrSeussAward.htm
Hope that helps.
KTH
Kathleen T. Horning, Director Cooperative Children's Book Center University of Wisconsin-School of Education 4290 Helen C. White Hall 600 North Park St. Madison, WI 53706
horning at education.wisc.edu Voice: 608-263-3721 Fax: 608-262-4933 www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/
>>> elivia 02/06/06 10:23 AM >>>
I have recently become a CCBC member and would like the email address
and website to learn more about the Geisel Award, as I am a children's author/illustrator and am very happy to recently have received HIGH RECOMMENDATION from the Charlotte Zolotov Award Committee for NO HAIRCUT TODAY! THis is written both for the very young, and as (I hope) an easy reader. Actually if any of you know it, as educators, I would value your feedback on it as an easy reader. I am not to up on whom this category is actually for. I had imagined beginning readers for this. THen watching a few beginners try it, I realized that some words were
sticky. I am interested in the Geisel award as I have a few similar level books coming out. What is the difference between this award category and the Charlotte Zolotov award category, which is 0-7 year olds? Sincerely, Elivia Savadier.
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