Picturebooks

      In picturebooks stories are told through the elements of illustrations used in isolation and context. Examples of elements of illustrations used in isolation include color, line, shape, texture, style, point of view, distance, and media. Examples of elements of illustrations used in context include framing, narrative sequence, and page turns.
     Picturebooks play a vital role in reading development. Picturebooks provide children with a visual experience, help children recognize the structural features that promote comprehension, and help children integrate visual and verbal information into a meaningful whole.
      Here are the top 10 read aloud picture books given in my course textbook:

• The Chicken Chasing Queen of Lamar Country by Janice Harrington
• My Garden by Kevin Henkes
• Click, Clack, Moo: Cows that Type by Doreen Cronin
• Jazz by Walter Dean Myers
• Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale by Mo Willems
• Officer Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathmann
• Owl Moon by Jane Yolen
• Velma Gratch and the Way Cool Butterfly by Alan Madison
• What Do You Do with a Tail Like This? by Steve Jenkins
• Where in the Wild?: Camouflaged Creatures Concealed...and Revealed by David Schwartz

 Johnson, D. (2009). The joy of children's literature. (2 ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.