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What does that look like?

Watch Clémentine Beauvais give us a tour of a picturebook where words and images don't quite agree.

What kinds of literacy skills would you say such books encourage?

Now think back to the picturebooks you identified as your favourite earlier.

How would you characterise the word-pictures interactions in those picturebooks? Write your answers below.

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Pictures of Youth: An Introduction to Children’s Visual Culture

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