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Title: Inside Picture Books by Ellen Handler Spitz, Robert Coles ISBN: 0-300-07602-9 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: May, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.82 (34 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Interesting Book about Picture Books
Comment: Inside Picture Books by Ellen Handler Spitz is a great book for parents, teachers, grandparents and anyone who reads to children. The author has excellent insights on the picture books and how children may react to the books. I enjoyed how Spitz explored the themes and the significance of the pictures in my favorite picture books. In her analysis of Good Night Moon Spitz describes how the rhythm of the words and pictures of the book help children fall asleep. The analysis of Good Night Moon is one example of how Spitz's analysis of a story helps the reader to understand how children understand the story. I believe that in her psychoanalysis of some of the picture books Spitz goes too in depth. In the stories Willy the Wimp and The Tenth Good Thing About Barney Spitz analyses every little detail in the story. This type of analysis ruins my enjoyment of the picture book. Overall I think that Inside Picture Books is an interesting informational book about the different types of picture books and how children react to them.
KM
Rating: 2
Summary: A Hard Reading Book
Comment: Spitz says this book is written for teachers, parents, and anyone else who deals with children on a regular basis, but her vocabulary is far higher than the average reading adult. She appears to be writing for her colleagues at the university. I feel, however, that she did an excellent job analyzing certain picture books, especially the psychological aspects as well as the obvious. When discussing a certain book, she makes reference to others and assumes we have read all these books. Half of them I had never heard of or even recall having them read to me as a child. This book is good if you are a college professor, but for the average reader, it needs work. S.D.
Rating: 4
Summary: Spitz comments on the classics
Comment: "Inside Picture Books" by Ellen Handler Spitz is a complete breakdown of the different kinds of childrens' picture books. Spitz comments on dozens of picture book classics and shows us why some will always be favorites and some will not. She does this by using each chapter to talk about a particular type of picture book, including bed time stories and "feel good" books. Some other topics spitz addresses are how picture books are illustrated, the message and the endings.
Although I found the first chapter of "Inside Picture Books" a bit dull, I quickly gained interest as I read on. I found myself in agreement with some of the author's themes, like how children have to surrender to sleep and how books relate. Other themes (sexual insinuations) were hard for me to accept. Overall, I found this book well written, intriguing and a little controversial, and recommend it to various audiences. If you read to children or just want to read an in-depth, competent writter this might be a good book for you.
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Title: From Cover to Cover: Evaluating and Reviewing Children's Book by Kathleen T. Horning, Stacy Innerst ISBN: 006446167X Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 31 March, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: The Uses of Enchantment : The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales by Bruno Bettelheim ISBN: 0679723935 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 23 April, 1989 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread (NEWBERY MEDAL BOOK) by Kate Dicamillo, Timothy B. Ering ISBN: 0763617229 Publisher: Candlewick Press Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.99 |
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