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The challenge of style in reading picture books

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One of the most important ... is the picture book. For it is there that the child will have his first encounter with a structured fantasy, mirrored in his own imagination and animated by his own feelings and imagery. It is there that, through the mediation of an adult reader, he will discover the relationship between visual and verbal language.

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  1. Karen S. Day
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Karen Day teaches language arts and children's literature at the University College of the Cariboo in interior British Columbia, Canada.

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Day, K.S. The challenge of style in reading picture books. Child Lit Educ 27, 153–166 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02355687

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