Picturebooks
The Dynamics of Picturebook Communication.
On 20, Dec 2015 | In Picturebooks | By Chris Vitale
Nikolajeva, Maria, and Carole Scott. “The Dynamics of Picturebook Communication.” Children’s Literature in Education 31.4. (2000): 225–39.
Referrer: Carrie Hintz
Categories: picture theory, visual language, definitions, image/text, illustrated books, narrative
Annotation:
Nikolajeva and Carole Scott discuss the groundwork for the larger book How Picturebooks Work in this article. The interplay and interaction between text and images is presented and distilled down. For Nikolajeva and Scott, the relationship between words and images is ambiguous and subjective. It is acknowledged that in an effort to categorize these kinds of relationships, some are more easily identifiable than others. The relationship is often complex and reliant on a range of factors that are different for each text. The distinction between illustrated books and picture books is also essential for these researchers. Picture books imply narrative work being accomplished by the illustrated elements of the text. Illustrated books use illustrations as decoration to complement rather than work alongside the text.
