Maurice Sendok's Where The Wild Things Are

Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are, In the Night Kitchen, and Outside Over There

When being read to, children react to illustrations immediately. This phenomenon means that the illustrations in a children’s book should be just as thought out as the highest art, for they influence the purest minds. Illustrations can tell a story on their own, and with some methodology, stimulate more than just the visual sense. Molly Bang, in her piece, Picture This: How Pictures Work, lays out certain principles in regards to how we interpret pictures. Bang explains how the use different line work and shapes provoke different feelings in the viewer, a notion which is seen in Maurice Sendek’s, Where the Wild Things Are, particularly when Max makes his way to the land of the Wild Things.

Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are perfectly demonstrates that some of our biggest discoveries can happen at a young age. Sendak sets the scene with a young, misunderstood boy, Max, who is experiencing difficulty between him and his mother. This leaves him feeling alone, an emotion that commonly catalyses discovery. Max’s wild journey begins when he is sent to his room without supper. Quickly becoming angry, Max begins by giving his anger free rein, but by then slowly discovering his love for his mother he comes to terms with the emotion being experienced.

The article Picturebooks and Emotional Literacy is about how important picturebooks are for children when learning how to use empathy with others. The author discusses how picturebooks can convey emotions that children, as well as adults often times do not have the words to describe. She goes on to explain how important the facial expressions in picturebooks are, along with the vide array of colors that are used to convey children’s emotions, such as red meaning anger. She explains how picturebooks are an excellent tool for teachers to use, when teaching predicting to children. I agree with the author, about how important picturebooks are.

In summary, a picture book can have so many objectives. They are meant to capture and delight, expand and elaborate a story, teach a concept or a value, develop awareness and appreciation and enhance language and literacy development in its readers. Galda and Cullinan (2006) summarised picture books as “a unique genre in the world of children’s and adolescent literature” (p.29). So, with so much veneration, what led The New York Times to headline the demise of the picture and can this really be the end of such a celebrated literary

A picturebook is a “social, cultural and historical document” (Sipe and Pantaleo 2010 p.1), as well as, a text that cannot be separated from the larger cultural or social textuality out of which it is constructed (Sipe and Pantaleo 2010). Throughout the twentieth century the picturebook was an artifact of culture that contained visual images and words (Kiefer 2010) and was predominantly in a book format. The most obvious changes which have occurred are more recent, and revolve around the physical makeup and the type of audience that responds to them (Kiefer 2010). Less obvious, but equally altered has been the generation of meaning structures, through and at times beyond, the interaction of both text and image, image, or text alone. Picturebooks,

Before coming into class on Wednesday, I began reminiscing on all of the children picture books I had read before. Thinking of the main theme, many of the characters, and the wide variety of story telling that each author made come alive to their reader. Reading William Moebius' essay "Introduction to Picturebook Codes” aided in the revival of my memories reading the picture book. However, with much more in-depth ways to explicate and read these stories meant for children. I appreciate Professor Moutray's assigning the class to read the essay since it guided us into further analyzing the books throughout the presentation. Professor Moutray's presentation was not only insightful on teach us how to read picture books in a new way, but also very

Stephen King uses being alone at night as a variable in this short horror story. His first reason, which is to show that we can handle what we will challenge, involves this. Many people are terrified of the dark, and Stephen King uses this. Another fear is being alone. The girls who are murdered in the story are alone when they were attacked. With these two variables that we could relate to, by reading or watching something of horror genre, we challenge ourselves to confront these fears.

We are afraid of the dark because we used to die in the dark, we are struggle in the dark or know nothing about the dark. The Dark is unknown, we are afraid because something is going to jump out and kill us, struggle in darkness, can’t see, or can’t hear. Just the silence of true about the world. The only way to hide from it is to stay in the light, then you'll to be safe, said the civilize. Stay in the door at night, because darkness is eating out the light. The lie light has to say to keep to the dark away, keep us sleep at night, so we don’t afraid of dying, during at night. Darkness excites when there is light, during daytime their shadow, but during the night, there is no light. Light and dark excite on earth as civilize and savage the two unlike concept, but civilize had to first be savage to become civilize The

Ever analyzed a picture book before? The colors, shapes, and underlying message on every inch of the page create a story. A story that makes your brain tick and contemplate what exactly you’re looking at. These things are significant to the constant development of a human being, but the specifically to a child.

Before I took this children’s theater class, I never thought I would create a picture book in my life. It was an incredible experience to create a picturebook by my own starting from the very beginning.

Before buying a book, the first thing I do is browse through the book and see if it has pictures. The notion that books without pictures are too serious, boring and lack interest is skeptical to many. The cliché “Too long didn’t read” comes up in the fact that if a reader sees a thirty-page essay without pictures to help guide them, then the reader skims through the reading or reads the first and last paragraphs. Many people believe that a book with no words feels empty while a book with no pictures is not engaging to the reader.

To begin, the aspect that is of at most importance in pictures books are clearly the type of illustrations. Effective illustrations set the tone for the type of book that it will be. To not get misunderstood, the text is essential as well. However when it comes to young readers, the pictures are what are going to the most impactful. In Abstract Alphabet, each page provides a colorful visual of the lower and upper case version of each letter. The letters on each page are also fairly large so it can be easily seen. This is important because this book for children attempting to actually learn the alphabet. It

Developmental psychology has proven that babies learn about their environment by a continuous process of assimilating and adjusting to new experiences so their first reactions eventually become organized into more and more coherent patterns of thought and behavior. Sometime along this process, picture books or toy books, the first types of books encountered normally by babies can play a role in this type of exploration by providing children with simplified and therefore more easily manageable images of the outside world. Sometimes the outside world can be an overwhelming place for a little child: the role of picture books of cutting down reality to more manageable proportions helps children cope with this situation. Pictures and illustrations play a major role in this respect. At first, babies do not even recognize the representations of illustrations, being mostly attracted by their shape and colors. After the age of one, however, they begin to recognize familiar objects in picture form. After this stage, development can happen quickly although children tend to prefer some particular artistic styles more than others, books with

Picture books are that beautiful mixture of words and pictures that work together to create a work of art in order to capture the reader’s attention. Pictures have narrative techniques that add richness and depth to books. Anthony Browne says about picture books that “the best ones leave a tantalising gap between the pictures and the words, a gap that is filled by the reader’s imagination, adding so much to the excitement of reading a book.” (BrainyQuote, 2017). In both “Piggybook” and “Five Minutes Peace”, children are depicted differently, however, there are some similarities between them.