bookriot:Picture books are tricky creatures. The challenge often lies in the ability to tell a sto
bookriot: Picture books are tricky creatures. The challenge often lies in the ability to tell a story over 30 or so pages, with just a few hundred words. Even after all the right words are chosen, the images have to work with them to reveal another layer of story. When executed perfectly, a picture book can linger in one’s imagination for a long, long time. The best ones have an ageless quality. I didn’t always feel this way. I thought picture books could talk about only so many things, that the medium wasn’t flexible enough, that it only told one kind of story over and over again. It was hard to imagine that the world of picture books was bigger than Dr. Seuss and Oliver Jeffers—marvellous as they are—but thanks to book-pushing friends, I was glad to see that it was indeed, so much bigger than I expected. If not life-changing, these books were certainly opinion-changing. http://bookriot.com/2016/02/18/picture-book-perfection-6-pretty-picks/ -- source link
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