Picture Books

What is a picture book?

• A genre

• A fictional book

• A format

• A format and a book design

What subjects do picture books deal with?

• Folk tales
• Non-fiction
• Nursery rhymes
  Nursery rhymes
• Everything and anything

Frame format is often a whole page or a double page.

• True

• False

Visual literacy is the ability to decode, ____________, create, question, challenge and evaluate texts that communicate with visual images.

• Donkey

• Interpret

• Thinking

• Questioning

Colour is used to create mood, atmosphere and drama.

• True

• False

Which camera angle is this?

• Low angle

• High angle

• Eyelevel

In wordless picture books, dialogue is evident through facial expressions, body language and proximity of characters.

• True

• False

Black and white picture books are not as effective or clever as coloured picture books

• True - A good picture book must have colour

• False - A good picture book can have either colour or be in completely black and white

___________ is the term used when a character, animal or object captures our attention and stands out from the rest of the image.

• Angles

• Framing

• Gaze

• Salience

Which is incorrect?

• Green = peacefulness, nature & jealousy

• Pink = romance, love, femininity & caring

• Red = spirituality, purity & cleanliness

• Blue = sadness, cold & freedom