Picture Books and Visual Literacy Kathy G. Short, 1993

PICTURE BOOK TEXT SETS ON VISUAL LITERACY

Elements of Art

1. Line

She Come Bringing Me That Little Baby Girl Eloise Greenfield. Ill. John Steptoe Let the Celebrations Begin! Margaret Wild. Ill. Julie Vivas Stevie John Steptoe The Winter Wife Anne Eliot Crampton. Ill. Robert Parker The Moon Was The Best Charlotte Zolotow. Photog. Tana Hoban Ben's Trumpet Rachel Isadora If You Are A Hunter of Fossils Byrd Baylor. Ill. Peter Parnall Why The Tides Ebb and Flow John Chase Bowden. Ill. Marc Brown The Fortune-Tellers Lloyd Alexander. Ill. Trina Schart Hyman A Promise To The Sun Tulolwa Mollel. Ill. Beatriz Vidal Stormy Day Claire Henley Rain Rain Rivers Uri Shulevitz

2. Color

Color Christina Rossetti Hailstones and Halibut Bones Mary O'Neill. Ill. John Wallner All The Colors of the Race Arnold Adoff. Ill. John Steptoe Seven Blind Mice Ed Young Colors Philip Yenawine Color Zoo Lois Ehlert Thinking About Colors Jessica Jenkins Millions of Cats, Wanda Gag Make Way for Ducklings, Robert McCloskey The Napping House, Don and Audrey Wood Once a Mouse, Marcia Brown The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses, Paul Goble

3. Light and Dark

Who Came Down That Road? George Ella Lyon. Ill. P. Catalanatto A Dark Dark Tale Ruth Brown Heckedy Peg Audrey Wood. Ill. Don Wood The Whale's Song Dyan Sheldon. Ill. Gary Blythe Owl Moon Jane Yolen. Ill. John Schoenherr King Bidgoods in the Bath Tub Audrey Wood. Ill. Don Wood Dawn Uri Schulevitz Song & Dance Man Karen Ackerman. Ill Stephen Gammell Knots on a Counting Rope Bill Martin Jr. Ill. Ted Rand Mirette On The High Wire Emily Arnold. Ill. McCully Lon Po Po Ill. Ed Young

4. Shape

Shapes Philip Yenawine Baby Rattlesbake Te Ata. (Adapted By) Lynn Moroney Matthew's Dream Leo Lionni Shape Space Cathryn Falwell Papagayo The Mischief Maker Gerald McDermott Antelope Woman: An Apache Folktale Michael Lacapa The Flute Player: An Apache Folktale Michael Lacapa Round And Around James Skofield

5. Space

The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship, Uri Shulevitz The Funny Little Woman, Arlene Mosel, Ill. Blair Lent Why Do Mosquitos Buzz in People's Ears, Verna Aardema, Ill. Noah's Ark, Peter Spier Spaces, Peter Parnall Who Came Down That Road? George Ella Lyon. Ill. Peter Catalanotto Cathedral David Macaulay Where the Wild Things Are, Places Philip Yenawine Dylan's Day Out Peter Catalanotto

TECHNIQUES OF ILLUSTRATION

1. Scratchboard

Cut From the Same Cloth: American Women of Myth, Legend and Tall Tale. Robert D. San Souci, Ill. Brian Pinkney The Elephant's Wrestling Match Judy Slewa, Ill. Brian Pinkney The Dark Thirty: Southern Tales of Supernatural Patricia McKissack, Ill. Brian Pinkney. The Ballad of Belle Dorcas William H. Hooks, Ill. Brian Pinkney Sukey and the Mermaid Robert D. San Souci, Ill. Brian Pinkney

2. Colored Pencils

The Relatives Came Cynthia Rylant, Ill. Stephen Gammell Dancing Teepees Virginia Hawk Sneve, Ill. Stephen Gammell Song and Dance Man Karen Ackerman, Ill. Stephen Gammell Papagayo: The Mischief Maker, Gerald McDermott Raccoons and Ripe Corn, Jim Arnosky Pumpkin, Pumpkin, Jeanne Titherington

3. Pen and Ink

The Other Way To Listen Byrd Baylor, Ill. Peter Parnall Barmi Xavier Hernandez & Jordi Ballonga. Ill by Francesco Corni Pyramid David Macaulay The Erie Canal Peter Spier (Illustrator) A Country Far Away Nigel Gray. Ill by Philippe Dupasquier Can I Keep Him? Steven Kellogg Iktomi and the Berries Paul Goble Anno's U.S.A. Mitsumasa Anno That Dreadful Day James Stevenson

4. Pastels

The Wreck of the Zephyr Space Travellers Margaret Wild. Ill. Gregory Rogers On Mother's Lap Ann Herbert Scott. Ill. Glo Coalson Three Cats Anne Brouillard Mandy Barbara D. Booth. Ill. Jim LaMarche Wind In The Long Grass Ed. William Higginson. Ill. Sandra Speidel Nathaniel Talking Eloise Greenfield How Many Days To America? Eve Bunting. Ill. Beth Peck Hoang Breaks the Lucky Teapot Rosemary K. Breckler. Ill. Adrain Frankel Foolish Rabbits Big Mistake Rafe Martin, Ill. Ed Young Yen Shen Retold By Ai-Ling Louie, Ill. Ed Young

5. Crayons

Fish Is Fish Leo Lionni Little Bear Sleeping Tony Johnston. Ill. Lillian Hoban Time To Get Out of Bed John Burningham Come Away From The Water Shirley John Burningham Three Days On a River in a Red Canoe Vera B. Williams

6. Watercolor

Nessa's Fish Nancy Luenn. Ill. Neil Waldman Owl Moon, Jane Yolen, Ill. John Schoenherr Dawn Uri Shulevitz The Volcano Ivan Gantschev Sky Dogs Jane Yolen. Ill. Barry Moser Cecil's Story George Ella Lyon. Ill. Peter Catalaotto Antarctica Helen Cowcher At The Crossroads Rachel Isadora London Bridge Is Falling Down Ill. Peter Spier The Gold Coin Alma Flor Ada. Ill. Neil Waldman Mirette on the High Wire Emily Arnold McCully The Very Best of Friends Margaret Wild. Ill. Julie Vivas Sing To The Sun Ashley Bryan Sami And The Time of Troubles Florence Parry Heide & Judith Heide Gilliland, Ill. Ted Lewin The Ghost-Eye Tree Bill Martin Jr. & John Archambault, Ill. Ted Rand Mirandy & Brother Wind Patricia McKissack, Ill.

7. Opaque Paint (Acrylic and oil)

Harriet And the Promised Land Jacob Lawrence The Whale's Song Dyan Sheldon. Ill. Gary Blythe Rumpelstiltskin Paul O. Zelinsky Working Cotton Sherley Anne Williams. Ill. Carole Byard Follow The Drinking Gourd Jeanette Winter The Great Wall Of China Leonard Everett Fisher Emily Michael Bedard. Ill. Barabara Cooney The Orphan Boy Tololwa M. Mollel. Ill. Paul Morin Bones, Bones, Dinosaur Bones Byron Barton Red Riding Hood Christopher Coady The Little Dog Laughed And Other Nursery Rhymes Lucy Cousins She Come Bringing Me That Little Baby Girl Eloise Greenfield, Ill. John Steptoe Where The River Begins Thomas Locker Saint George And The Dragon Margaret Hodges, Ill. Trina Schart Hyman The Flame of Peace, Deborah Nourse Lattimore The Wretched Stone, Chris Van Allsburg

8. Charcoal

The Other Bone Ed Young I Have Another Language, The Language Is Dance Eleanor Schick Corn Rows Camille Yarbrough. Ill. Carole Byard In Coal Country Judith Hendershot. Ill. Thomas B. Allen April's Kittens Clare Turlay Newberry Cats Are Cats Nancy Larrick. Ill. Ed Young Moon Song Byrd Baylor. Ill. Ronald Himler

9. Photography

AH! Josse Goffin The Moon Seymour Simon Loving Ann Morris. Photog. Ken Heyman Eskimo Boy Russ Kendall Children of the Wild West Russell Freedman Windows on Wildlife Judy Cutchins. Photg. Ginny Johnston Hawaii Is A Rainbow Stephanie Feeney. Photog. Jeff Reese Autumn Across America Seymour Simon The Children of Matti A. Pitkanen Hoang Anh, A Vietnamese-American Boy Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith. Photog. Lawrence Migdale Eyewitness: Ancient Egypt George Hart Mary Had A Little Lamb, Bruce McMillan Look! Look! Look!, Tana Hoban

10. Clay

Have You Seen Birds? Joanne Oppenheim, Ill. Barbara Reid Playing With Plasticine Barbara Reid The New Baby Calf Barbara Reid

11. Collage

How Summer Came To Canada Elizabeth Cleaver Quail Song Valerie Scho Carey & Ivan Barnett Seven Blind Mice Ed Young Shadow Marcia Brown This Is The Hat Nancy Van Laan. Ill. Holly Miadle Across Town Sara Where The Forest Meets The Sea Jeannie Baker The Snowy Day Ezra Jack Keats Red Dragonfly On My Shoulder Molly Bang Secret Of Frogs Sheila Hamanaka The Animal That Drank Up Sound William Stafford. Ill. Debra Frasier Today Is Monday Eric Carle Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf, Lois Ehlert

12. Paper and Fabric

Count! Denise Fleming Rain Player David Wisniewski The Paper Crane Molly Bang The Butterfly Hunt Yoshi Come To My Party Judith Richardson. Ill. Salley Mavor Tonight Is Carnival Arthur Dorros. Ill. with Arpilleras sewn by The Club de Madres Virgen del Carmen of Lima, Peru The Desert Mermaid: La Sirena Del Desierto Alberto Blanco. Ill. Patricia Revah Tar Beach, Faith Ringgold

13. Printmaking

The House That Jack Built Jenny Stow A Color of His Own Leo Lionni A Farmer's Alphabet Mary Azarian Ho Limlin Tejima Why The Sky Is Far Away Mary Joan Genson. Ill. Carla Golembe Drummer Hoff Barbara Emberly. Ill. Ed Emberley Marco Polo Susan Roth

BOOKMAKING AND DESIGN

1. Unusual Formats

Circus, Lois Ehlert Reflections, Ann Jonas Where's Spot?, Eric Hill The Jolly Postman, Janet and Allen Ahlberg A Perfect Spring, Lark Carrier There Was an Old Woman, Stephen Wylie and Maureen Roffey The Story of the Seashore, John S. Goodall Nature Hide and Seek: Oceans, John Norric Woom and Mack Harrison The Bus Stop, Nancy Heller Anno's Counting House, Mitsumaso Anno Black and White, David Macaulay

2. Formal and Informal Text Placement

Catch the Wind: All About Kites, Gail Gibbons Merry-go-round, Ruth Heller Snow White in New York, Fiona French Mary Wore Her Red Dress..., Merle Peek If at First You Do Not See, Ruth Brown Rainforest, Helen Cowcher Borreguita and the Coyote, Verna Aardema, illus by Petra Mathers All of You Was Singing, Richard Lewis, illus by Ed Young

3. Kinds of Paper and Print

Colors, Heidi Goennel. Tree of Life, Barbara Bash Here Comes the Cat, V. Vagin and Frank Asch The Buck Stops Here, Alice Provenson The Mysteries of Harris Burdick, Chris Van Allsburg Illuminations, Jonathan Hunt The Tongue-Cut Sparrow, Momoko Ishii, translated by Katherine Paterson, illus by Suekichi Akaba Chingis Khan, Demi Dawn, Molly Bang The Outside Inn, George Ella Lyon, illus by Vera Rosenberry The Magic Schoolbus Lost in the Solar System, Joanna Cole, illus by Bruce Degen.

4. Borders

A Chair for My Mother, Vera Williams Up a Tree, Ed Young A River Ran Wild, Lynne Cherry Tar Beach, Faith Ringgold The Mitten, Jan Brett Hey Al, Arthur Yorinks, illus by Richard Egielski The Bird Who Was An Elephant, Aleph Kamal, illus by Frane Lessac Johnny Appleseed, Reeve Lindbergh, illus by Kathy Jokobsen Home Place, Crescent Dragonwagon, illus by Jerry Pinkey

5. Book Jacket, Cover, Front Matter, Endpapers

The Terrible Eek, Patricia A. Compton, illus by Sheila Hamanaka The Frog Prince Continued, Jon Scieszka, illus by Steve Johnson Mother Goose and the Sly Fox, Chris Conover Jack and the Bean Tree, Gail Haley The Winged Cat: A Tale of Ancient Egypt, Deborah Nourse Lattimore The Great St. Lawrence Seaway, Gail Gibbons Junglewalk, Nancy Tafuri Puss in Boots, Charles Perrault, illus by Fred Marcellino Window, Jeannie Baker Princess Furball, Charlotte Huck, illus by Anita Lobel

6. Pop-Ups

How to Make Pop-Ups, Joan Irvine, illus by Barbara Reid Oh My a Fly!, Jan Pienkowski Maisy Goes Swimming, Lucy Cousins Worms Wiggle, David Pelham & Michael Foreman Nature Hide and Seek: Jungles, John Norris Wood & Kevin Dean Old MacDonald Had a Farm, Pam Adams Goodnight Moon Room: A Pop-Up Book, Margaret Wise Brown, illus by Clement Hurd Peter and the Wolf, Sergei Prokofiev, illus by Barbara Cooney There Was An Old Lady, Nick Bantock Dear Zoo, Rod Campbell

Styles of Illustration

1. Graphic Design

The Stone Cutter, Gerald McDermott Color Zoo, Lois Ehlert Truck, Donald Crews Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs, Byron Barton When You Were a Baby, Ann Jonas

2. Cartoons

The Lorax, Dr. Seuss The Three Little Pigs, James Marshall Could be Worse, James Stevenson Leo the Late Bloomer, Robert Kraus. Ill. Jose Aruego Hey Al, Arthur Yorinks, Ill. Richard Egielski Spinky Sulks, William Steig Is Your Mama a Llama, Deborah Guarino. Ill. Steven Kellogg

3. Surrealistic

Jumanji, Chris Van Allsburg Changes, Anthony Browne Outside Over There, Maurice Sendak Tuesday, David Wiesner Simon's Book, Henrik Drescher The True Story of the Three Pigs, Jon Sciezska, Ill. Lane Smith

4. Folk Art

Shaker Lane, Alice and Martin Porvensen Island Boy, Barbara Cooney Buffalo Woman, Paul Goble Mary Had a Little Lamb, Ill. Tomie dePaola The Quilt Story, Tony Johnson, Ill. Tomie de Paola

5. Realistic

Dragonfly's Tale, Kristina Rodanas The Land of Gray Wolf, Thomas Locker Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters, John Steptoe Rumpelstiltskin, Paul Zelinsky The Talking Eggs, Robert San Souci, Ill. Jerry Pinkney The Day of Ahmed's Secret Florence Parry Heide & Judith Heide Gilliland, Ill. Ted Lewin

6. Impressionism

Yonder, Tony Johnson, Ill. Lloyd Bloom Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Birthday Present, Charlotte Zolotow, Ill. Maurice Sendak The Very Last First Time, Jan Andrews, Ill. Ian Wallace Dibble and Dabble, Dave and Julie Saunders All I See, Cynthia Rylant, Ill. Peter Catalanotto Angel Child, Dragon Child, Michele Surat, Ill. Vo-Dinh Mai

7. Expressionism

A Chair for My Mother, Vera Williams Crow Boy, Taro Yashima Zeek Silver Moon, Amy Ehrlich, Ill. Robert Parker Song and Dance Man, Karen Ackerman, Ill. Stephen Gammell I'm in Charge of Celebrations, Byrd Baylor, Ill. Peter Parnall The Mud Pony, Caron Lee Cohen, Ill. Shonto Begay