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videoMay 24, 2013 3:02 pm
Author and illustrator Annette LeBlanc Cate discusses the power of the picture book #webelieveinpicturebooks
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videoMay 23, 2013 2:52 pm
Author and illustrator Peter H. Reynolds talks about illustrating characters #webelieveinpicturebooks
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videoMay 22, 2013 1:27 pm
Author and illustrator Matt Tavares discusses his artistic evolution #webelieveinpicturebooks
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videoMay 21, 2013 10:03 am
Author Katherine Paterson shares some of her favorite picture book memories #webelieveinpicturebooks
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videoMay 20, 2013 10:40 am
Author Jeri Watts shares why she believes in picture books #webelieveinpicturebooks
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videoMay 19, 2013 10:09 am
Tess reads a picture book #webelieveinpicturebooks
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videoMay 18, 2013 10:28 am
Diane discusses picture books #webelieveinpicturebooks
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Why are we passionate about this genre? Picture books by nature are performances, and all participants have an essential role. There’s the author and illustrator (sometimes the same person playing different parts). There are editors and designers working hard behind the scenes to make sure their efforts are invisible. There’s the reader and listener, maybe a parent encircling a child with the book on her lap, or a teacher holding a spread aloft. Then there’s the book itself, a still object that spurs the child to action: pacing the page-turns, “reading” the pictures, voicing a soundtrack, acting out scenes, and especially, using the power of imagination to fill in the spaces. Picture books live on, in the physical world and in our psyche, ever ready to be performed again. And that is a joyful thing.
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