From: Tracy L. Hubbard <tlhubbar>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 20:33:43 -0500 (CDT)

I may be naive, but I think there is an interest (I'm not sure I would say empahsis yet) on picture books for older children, because there is a realization of how wonderful they are. Many factors have contributed to it, but I believe the realization that the pictures have real value to them is a contributor. There is also a greater understanding of how not all learners are the same and therefore the need to have books that will appeal to manners of senses and intelligence. A very visual learner can be so much more successful with the assistance of pictures. And last but not least the picture books themselves have become much more complicated and appealing to an older audience.

I don't remember something that evokes the feelings of a place as much as Walter Dean Myer's Harlem: A Poem, or the presentation of complicated ideas and philosophies in Jon Muth's Zen Shorts. In a world that can use as many critical thinkers as possible these are just 2 Iexamples of the value of picture book.


Tracy Tracy Hubbard Learning Center Director Indian Trail School Highland Park, IL

CAS Student GSLIS/UIUC tlhubbar at uiuc.edu
Received on Wed 20 Sep 2006 08:33:43 PM CDT