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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
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.
http://www.dickinson.edu/trout/Odyssey%20program/index.html
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.
“Blue
is the
color
of
freedom.”
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