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Peer reviewedShort, Kathy G. – Reading Teacher, 1993
Asserts that picture books offer a unique opportunity for children to develop visual literacy because they are able to return to the visual images in books to explore, reflect, and critique those images. Reviews 71 works of children's fiction in which the main characters engage in meaning making through art. (PRA)
Descriptors: Book Reviews, Childrens Literature, Elementary Education, Fiction
