What question did this study set out to answer?

The aim is to explore how the combination of text and images in picture books enhances storytelling and education for young children.

July 1, 1989

Words about pictures: the narrative art of children's picture books

Key Points

The aim is to explore how the combination of text and images in picture books enhances storytelling and education for young children.
Analyzes various children’s picture books to assess their narrative qualities and artistic techniques.
Draws comparisons between visual and verbal elements to identify their collective impact on storytelling.
Illustrates that the blend of images and words yields richer narrative experiences for children.
Demonstrates how specific picture books exemplify the interplay of visual and verbal storytelling.

Abstract

This book examines the special qualities of picture books-books intended to educate or tell stories to young children. Drawing from a number of aesthetic and literary sources, Perry Nodelman explores the way in which the interplay of the verbal and visual aspects of picture books conveys more narrative information and stimulation than either medium could acheive alone. Moving from baby books, alphabet books, and word books to such well-known children's picture books as Nancy Ekholm Burkert's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Gerald McDermott's Arrow to the Sun, Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are, and Chris Van Allsburg's The Garden of Abdul Gasazi, reveals how picture-book design and illustration as well as by the relationships between pictures and their complementary texts.

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