Poetry is a language that paints on the mind's eye images more beautiful and more powerful than the physical eye can behold. Poetry reflects our familiar world back to us with unfamiliar distinction. What illustrator dares to reproduce such personal and powerful visions of the imagination, which poetry's words inspire? Illustrators of children's poetry picture books do.
The problem can be that illustrated editions of a traditionally oral literature do not necessarily exercise children's imaginations the way the words do. So, do illustrated poems interfere with children's ability to imagine?
Journal
The Looking Glass : New Perspectives on Children's LiteratureISSN
1551-5680Volume
6Issue
1Publisher
La Trobe UniversitySection Title
Picture WindowAuthor Biography
Amanda McKinlay is a student in the Master of Arts in Children's Literature program at the University of British Columbia.Date Created
2010-12-15Rights Statement
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