Picture Books

This article discusses the critical role that picture books can play in nurturing children’s engagements with reading the word and the world. It does this with examples drawn from a wide variety of picture books, and provides insights on the ways in which these can be used with children to further their development.

This article discusses the importance of reading images in picture books with care, attention and sensitivity. It does this by engaging with Manjula Padmanabhan’s book ‘Where’s that cat?’ (2005), to show how a conversation with the images in picture books can add layers to our reading and understanding of texts.