What are the goals of the book as a children’s book (help explore emotions and ideas?

At this point in the semester you’ve developed your skills as a critical reader of children’s books,
so now it’s time to apply them as a children’s book critic.
For this assignment, choose a physical children’s picturebook (no ebooks or PDFs) that we have NOT read for class. Then, analyze the book by considering the following questions:
•Using the “artistic choices” from the “Children’s Picturebooks” lecture, consider how the author and illustrator (or author-illustrator) approached these different choices:
oSize of the book
oSize of the picture against the page oComposition of the objects on the page oUse, amount, and quality of color oStrength of line
oMedium used
oAvailability or cost
•How do these choices affect the experience of the book?
•Is there any one choice or set of choices that you would have made differently? Why?
•What are the goals of the book as a children’s book (help explore emotions and ideas? Transmit values or moral lessons? Develop familiarity and understanding with language or specific topic? Enable political or social reflections? Entertain?)? Is the book successful in achieving these goals? Why or why not?
•Who is the intended audience for this book and do you think it meets the needs of or is appropriate for this audience?

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