Picturebooks

A picture book is conceived of as a unit, a totality that integrates all the designed parts in a sequence in which the relationships among them are crucial to understanding the book. There are many different categories of picturebooks and has a limitless potential. Each aspect of a picturebook serves as a visual sign that affects the way readers construct meaning from the text. Categories are:

• Mother Goose Stories: these teach a lesson or a moral to young readers.
• Concept books: Also known as informational picture books. These books tell a story about a specific concept primarily through illustrations. The goal for these books are to assist children in thinking about colors and numbers.
• Alphabet books: They engage students in connecting letters with objects that being with the letter and create stories.
• Counting books: These books introduce the concept of numbers, the calendar, and the seasons through a story.
• Wordless picturebooks: Uses illustrations to tell a story, this provides an opportunity to explore how stories work.
• Toy books: these books physically engage the reader in the story with pop-ups, pull tabs, flaps, or textured pages.
• Pop-up books: When the book is opened these books have pages with three-dimensional objects that pop up.
• Easy-to-read books: These contain stories that have strong characterization, themes related to the reader, and engaging plots with simple sentences and direct dialogue.
• Picture storybooks: These books integrate words and illustration on each page to tell a story.
• Postmodern books: With use of multiple colors and complex lines and images, these books employ multiple perspectives and/or narrators within a nonlinear story structure.