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Picturebooks

Picturebooks. A Unique Format Chapter 3. Defining Picturebooks. A unity of words (if any) and pictures to convey meaning Span the genres of fiction (folklore, fantasy and science fiction, realistic fiction, historical fiction) And nonfiction and biography And poetry or song

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Picturebooks

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  1. Picturebooks A Unique Format Chapter 3

  2. Defining Picturebooks • A unity of words (if any) and pictures to convey meaning • Span the genres of fiction (folklore, fantasy and science fiction, realistic fiction, historical fiction) • And nonfiction and biography • And poetry or song • A wide range of audience age and interest

  3. Considering Artistic Quality • Media • Technique • Artistic element: Line • Artistic element: Color • Artistic element: Shape • Artistic element: Texture

  4. Principles of Design • Composition • Balance • Rhythm • Variety • Emphasis • Spatial order

  5. Styles of Art • Representational art • Surrealistic art • Impressionistic art • Folk art and naïve art • Outline style • Combined styles

  6. Artistic/Design Elements in Picture Storybooks • Brevity • Usually 32 pages • Signature • Openings • Double-page spreads • Verso • Recto

  7. Artistic/Design Elements • Elements surrounding the story—the overture before the opera • Dust jacket • Case • Endpages/endpapers • Pastedown • Flyleaf

  8. Artistic/Design Elements • Half-title page • Title page • Front matter • Dedication page • Publishing information “Trust the picturebook itself to be its own best introduction.”

  9. Artistic/Design Elements • Relationship of words and pictures • Story told by the words • Story told by the pictures • Complete story told by both • Words indicate: • what to pay attention to in pictures • how to interpret what we see • may be placed in varied ways

  10. Artistic/Design Elements • Pictures can reflect and extend the text • Pictures can present a “story within a story” • Pictures can provide a richer, broader context than words can convey • Words can have a visual quality • Relationship of words and pictures can be ironic, subversive, contradictory

  11. Artistic/Design Elements • Size and Shape • Trim size • Portrait/landscape form • Illustration size and shape • Full bleed • Boxes • Text panels • Borders (framing) versus floating

  12. Artistic/Design Elements • Illustration sequence • Sequential images/continuous narration • Relationships of pictures to what comes before and after • Unique to picturebooks as individual illustrations do not stand alone as in paintings

  13. Artistic/Design Elements • Page Turns as Drama • What might have happened between one illustration and the next • Changes in perspective • Gutter • Design for illustration not obscured by gutter • Design for words not obscured by gutter • Use of gutter as indication of separation

  14. Elements of Narrative in Picture Storybooks • Setting • Characterization • Plot • Theme • Style

  15. Types of Picturebooks • For young children • Board books • Participation books • Concept books • Alphabet books • Counting books • Poetry and song • Storybooks

  16. Types of Picturebooks • For emerging readers • Wordless books/spare text • Predictable/patterned books • Beginning-to-read books

  17. Types of Picturebooks • Nonfiction books • Postmodern picturebooks • Picturebooks for older readers • Might be wordless, spare text, alphabet books, etc., but are complex • Includes graphic comics/novels and blurred forms/formats

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