Visual Literacy & Picture Books

Welcome to the Internet School Library Media Center visual literacy and picture books page. You will find information on visual literacy and picture books which are a strong element in developing visual literacy with children. The ISLMC is a meta-site for teachers, librarians, parents and children. You can search this site, use an index or sitemap. Page revision 5/27/01.

North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts Newsletter

Discusses art criticism in the curriculum.
Telling Stories with Pictures : The Art of Children's Book Illustration

Online exhibits by some outstanding

book illustrators, with biographical information.
Picturing Books : A Web Site About Picture Books

Resources, database, anatomy of a book, application,

artistic media, artistic style
How to Look at Illustrated Books

From Wally Hasting's Children's Literature Page
Art in Children's Books: Lecture Outline

By Dr. Marilyn H. Stauffer
National Center for Children's Illustrated Literature

Exhibits, illustrator biographies, lesson plan (color) for kids
International Visual Literacy Association

Conferences, publications, resources.
IVLA Visual Literacy Bibliography
Visual Literacy Exercise : Part One

By Lee Makela. Uses selected 19th century woodblock

prints by Japanese artist, Hiroshige Ando.
The On-Line Visual Literacy Project

What is visual literacy?; basic visual elements. From

Pomona College
Visual Literacy Exercises

By Robert Burkhardt
Visual Communication, Visual Literacy

Notebook of articles on the topics
Introduction to Mental Images

Introductory texts; by T. Birch
Visual Literacy

Definitions; bibliographies; click on the visuals for some

lovely images
Alphabet Books

Criteria for evaluation, forms, bibliography
Art Pavilion

Art projects and resources. For art teachers.
Counting Books

Criteria for evaluation, forms, bibliography
Easy Readers

A bibliography for K-1.
Concept Books

Criteria for evaluation, forms, bibliography
Ten, Nine, Eight

A critique of Molly Bang's picture book. By Inez Ramsey.
1, 2, 3 to the Zoo

A critique of Eric Carle's picture book. By Inez Ramsey.
Children's Literature for Teaching Mathematics

Article by Meghan Eddy.
Words of Art : An On-Line Glossary of Theory and Criticism for the Visual Arts

Reference.
Learning to Look

A format for looking at and talking about photographs.

By Cass Fey
Vandergrift's Children's Literature Page

Discussion on literature in the lives of children; evaluating

children's literature and other topics of interest. Great site!
Dandi Palmer. Online Picture Books

17 complete online picture books by Dandi Palmer

Credits:
Daffy Duck courtesy of Warner Bros. Studios

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