Critical analysis of visual text in children literature

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A Merged fantasy and reality to allow the readers to see what the character is doing and Different font sizes are used. Smaller font is used to narrate the boy’s imagination and a bigger font is used Images of man, women and child shows the author’s neutral preference towards Humor in illustration. The dinosaur and lion are not relevant to the picture, but it serves as a basis to prompt The hills and sheep depicts New Zealand setting and culture which gives the reader a Varied syntactic pattern can motivate and challenge the The illust ration are elabor ate and detail ed to The boy’s imagination is drawn in two pages which shows that greater emphasis is given on imagination. This opens up reader’s imaginative mind and

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Mer

ged

fant

asy

and

real

ity

to

allo

w th

e re

ader

s to

see

wha

t th

e ch

arac

ter

is d

oing

and

th

inki

ng

Dif

fere

nt f

ont s

izes

are

use

d.

Sm

alle

r fo

nt is

use

d to

nar

rate

the

boy’

s im

agin

atio

n an

d a

bigg

er

font

is u

sed

to s

how

that

it is

in

real

ity

Imag

es o

f m

an, w

omen

and

ch

ild

show

s th

e au

thor

’s

neut

ral p

refe

renc

e to

war

ds

both

gen

der.

Hum

or in

illu

stra

tion

. The

din

osau

r an

d li

on a

re n

ot r

elev

ant t

o th

e pi

ctur

e, b

ut it

ser

ves

as a

bas

is to

pr

ompt

rea

ders

to th

ink

crit

ical

ly

The

hil

ls a

nd s

heep

de

pict

s N

ew

Zea

land

set

ting

and

cu

ltur

e w

hich

giv

es

the

read

er a

con

text

w

hich

they

are

fa

mil

iar

wit

h

Var

ied

synt

acti

c pa

tter

n ca

n m

otiv

ate

and

chal

leng

e th

e re

ader

s

The

il

lust

rati

on

are

elab

orat

e an

d de

tail

ed

to g

ive

the

read

ers’

ex

tra

The

boy

’s im

agin

atio

n is

dra

wn

in tw

o pa

ges

whi

ch

show

s th

at g

reat

er e

mph

asis

is g

iven

on

imag

inat

ion.

T

his

open

s up

rea

der’

s im

agin

ativ

e m

ind

and

help

them

to

thin

k cr

eati

vely

too.