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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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“Blue
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