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Credit: 2003 The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art/Paul Shoul

• What’s going on in this picture?

• What do you see that makes you say that?

• What else can you find?

Visual Thinking Strategies Questions

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Grant Wood. The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere. 1931.

Megan Lambert, Instructor of Children’s Literature

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Black Hawk. “Sans Arc Lakota” Ledger Book. 1880-81.

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Black Hawk. “Sans Arc Lakota” Ledger Book. 1880-81.

Whole Book Approach Questions

Format: Why was a landscape format chosen?

Whole Book Approach Questions

Format: Why was a portrait format chosen?

Book Jacket/Cover: What’s going on in this picture?

Romare Bearden. The Dove. 1964.

Whole Book Approach Questions

Medium: How does the choice of medium affect or contribute

to the story?

Whole Book Approach Questions

Endpapers: How do they prepare you for what’s ahead (or connect

to what you saw on the cover)?

Whole Book Approach Questions

Gutter: How does the artist accommodate the gutter or use it to

create physical or emotional distance?

Whole Book Approach Questions

Typography: What role does typography play in establishing mood, voice?

Composition: How are all elements of the book arranged? Consider

the absence or presence of frames, the use and pacing of doublespreads, font

choices, placement of text and pictures, etc.

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www.programminglibrarian.org/picturingamerica

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