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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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videoMay 17, 2013 10:57 am
Leslie talks about the power of the picture book #webelieveinpicturebooks
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videoMay 16, 2013 10:16 am
Authors Mal Peet and Elspeth Graham discuss the magic of picture books #webelieveinpicturebooks
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videoMay 15, 2013 1:58 pm
Stephanie shares her love of picture books #webelieveinpicturebooks
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videoMay 14, 2013 10:02 am
Me Hungry! by Jeremy Tankard #webelieveinpicturebooks
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videoMay 13, 2013 10:23 am
William and Tasker share a favorite picture book #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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