I will like to share the picture book, Three Little Kittens, written and illustrated by Jerry Pinkney, copyright 2010. The author, artist Jerry Pinkney brings a gloriously vivid palette, delightful detail and tremendous warmth to his version of this favorite nursery rhyme and three kittens. The text is well paced and creatively displayed: “meow” and “purr” sounds stand out in color-coded script as a cue for young ones to chant along. Practically life-size, the wide-eyed felines tumble joyously across each full page spread, losing, finding, soiling, and cleaning their mittens. Throughout, the sense of play is fun and contagious, the threat of punishment gentle but firm, and the rhyme limited yet effective. The pencil and watercolor art …show more content…
is characteristic Pinkney and places the romp at the very beginning of the mitten season with a pale autumn palette. Some of the figures and shapes lose distinction when viewed close up, but the effect gives an expression how the kittens lost their mittens. Three Little Kittens touching story because they had mittens that mother made for them. The kittens go out to play, but all three of them lose their mittens; because they have lost their mittens, their mother tells them they can’t have any pie. The kittens go back outside to look for their mittens, and they find them, the kittens get to have pie, but while they are having pie, they get their yellow mittens dirty. The kittens wash their yellow mittens and hang them out to dry. And their mother is proud of them. So, they get to go outside and play in front of their house by the brown fence again. I really like this book! The illustrations were beautiful! The book takes place in the fall, and that is my favorite season. The kittens are adorable and their mittens are equally adorable! I could use this book to talk about responsibility, and how someone takes care of what they have; they can be rewarded for it. It is important to be responsible for your belongings, and when you show that you are responsible, good things can come to you. In this story of Three Little Kittens young children all know the Mother Goose rhyme of the kittens who have lost their mittens, but they’ve never seen it illustrated with so much energy, beauty, and flair. Preschoolers will delight in these cuddly kittens as they frolic outside in the falling leaves, get their whiskers sticky while eating a just-baked apple pie, and do the washing up under Mama Cat’s watchful faze. When reading The Three Little Kittens illustrated by Jerry Pinkney we notice that background of pages is white.
This allows the reader’s to see Mother Goose as a character almost coming out of each page. When Mother Goose appears the kittens behave and listen to her. Mother Goose is huge and tall that when she appears covers the whole page, and could see the text more in the opposite page. As described the book the style it written in thin line understanding the letter in Georgia 12 fonts, many pages has quotation to show expressions of the kittens taught. As continue with the story the picture fills the pages and embedded the sentence insides the pictures. At the beginning of the story the letter T is italic red to capture the reader attention. This reading could be children of preschool and like to read non-fiction book with bright colors like the color of the kittens are yellow, orange with green scarf around his neck, other kittens is black with light brown with baby blue bow on his head carrying pink bunny, the other kittens brown with black all three kittens seem like they are really happy and playful. This kittens are medium size and fluffy and well fed by their mother. The text is embedded in the reading so it could capture the children’s attention and could focus not only on the words, but in the picture, it could capture that every pages is bright and shows different color of the fall, and that leaves are falling on the ground. Their also a red bird playing with the kittens or seeing the kittens playing outside with the yellow yarn. They’re not enough space between words, but sentence could be read and understand. The book a medium size book that when children go to the library and read about non-fiction see bright color they will choose this book because many kids love cats. By reading this book of Jerry Pinkey gave me an opportunity of the scene is artwork enhances the text with so much more to bring out the story line. You can show a child
much more than just simple drawings and words on a page, you can show a child how to use their imagination to make their like more fun while you are teaching them to be more observant and resourceful even at an early age. This story line even gives children lessons on responsibility and manners. This picture book is an excellent example of how meaning is conveyed through illustrations that do not just enhance the text but are essential to creating understanding. It means that a review that does not discuss the role of color and texture within this picture book is incomplete and inaccurate. Reviewers need to understand how the elements of art, color, line shape, texture, etc. are used to create meaning, as well as how the literary elements of character, practice visual literacy within a picture book. This is a good way to understand how to use our imagination more deep into non-fiction books.
“ The horizon was the color of milk. Cold and fresh. Poured out among the bodies” (Zusak 175). The device is used in the evidence of the quote by using descriptives words that create a mental image. The text gives the reader that opportunity to use their senses when reading the story. “Somehow, between the sadness and loss, Max Vandenburg, who was now a teenager with hard hands, blackened eyes, and a sore tooth, was also a little disappointed” (Zusak 188). This quote demonstrates how the author uses descriptive words to create a mental image which gives the text more of an appeal to the reader's sense such as vision. “She could see his face now, in the tired light. His mouth was open and his skin was the color of eggshells. Whisker coated his jaw and chin, and his ears were hard and flat. He had a small but misshapen nose” (Zusak 201). The quotes allows the reader to visualize what the characters facial features looked like through the use of descriptive words. Imagery helps bring the story to life and to make the text more exciting. The reader's senses can be used to determine the observations that the author is making about its characters. The literary device changes the text by letting the reader interact with the text by using their observation skills. The author is using imagery by creating images that engages the reader to know exactly what's going on in the story which allows them to
Little Girls in Pretty Boxes and The Scarlet Letter. Both authors persuade the reader to feel pain of the stories subject. In Little Girls in Pretty Boxes the author used pathos and interviewing to share the stories of these overly dedicated youth. Joan Ryan wrote to show how these young, talented, sophisticated women can hide the harsh reality of the sport. In her biography she listed the physical problems that these young girls go through. They have eating disorders, stunted growth, weakened bones, depression, low self esteem, debilitating and fatal injuries, and many sacrifice dropping out of school. Whereas the Scarlet Letter is a fictional drama that uses persuasion and storytelling to involve the reader. Nathaniel Hawthorne discusses
How to Read Literature like a Professor by Thomas C Foster is a how to do book that teaches children how to become better readers. The novel was written in second person. The purpose of this novel is to inform readers on details that they wouldn’t usually realize in literature. Students who read Thomas C Foster’s How to Read Literature like a Professor are suppose to gain knowledge of how to identify details of their story that have connections to other literature or have alternative meanings that the author is trying to get across to the reader. Thomas C Foster believes reading his novel can help develop you into a better reader. He believes this because the information that he includes can apply to your reading. When you realize the connections he talks about, it gives you a better understanding of the book you are reading.
Although the author’s words are simple, they create a mood into the illustrations that truly emphasise the emotion of the indigenous point of view. Viewers can than feel more of what they can see, an example of this is when the authors used different sized text in “stole our children.” This text with the illustration can truly create an effect on the way it is read and viewed by, making viewers feel empathy as the size of each words shrinks defining the children’s positon as they get further away from their parent. This attains the Europeans guilt on the choices they had made as the story is seen in the indigenous point of view on how they suffered due to the past horrendous choices made by the Europeans at that
The ability of words to calm a child’s fears is shown in “A Barred Owl.” Additionally, the author conveys the idea that even though one may say everything is alright, what one makes up in one’s mind is often worse than reality. The rhyme scheme in “A Barred Owl” helps depict the simple and soothing tone of the poem. Not only the rhyme scheme but also the repetition of certain consonants and sounds such as, “the warping night air having brought the boom / of an owl’s voice into her darkened room” help emphasize Wilbur’s i...
Piper’s use of imagery in this way gives the opportunity for the reader to experience “first hand” the power of words, and inspires the reader to be free from the fear of writing.
The effective use of color and imagery by an author, combined with poetic language can give the reader a detailed image in their mind. Edith Wharton uses this technique in her writing in the novella Ethan Frome. Using imagery, the author paints a vivid picture with words using color to set moods, develop characters, and foreshadow coming events allowing the reader to fully experience the world of Ethan Frome.
...s own wounded self, unaware of the unconscious connection to the depression of his mother and the unconscious recognition with the danger of his father. This text within a text is another chapter in Art Spiegleman's life that ends in tragedy from the death of a loved one and a piece of him. Artie's emphasis in this section of Maus is illustrated through the creation of a gloomy illusion when he outlined the four pages of the comic in black and illustrated the characters in a darker, more realistic manner from the mice and cats throughout the rest of the book. The purpose of this text within a text was to inform the reader that there was more to Art's story than what his father had to say. The death of Art's mother had a horrific impact on his father and himself, and this small cartoon was a way for Art to tell the story while coping with his memory of the incident.
“Theatre is like a gym for the empathy. It’s where we can go to build up the muscles of compassion, to practice listening and understanding and engaging with people that are not just like ourselves. We practice sitting down, paying attention and learning from other people’s actions. We practice caring.” (Bill English of the SF Playhouse). This quote accurately summarises the purpose of Children’s Theatre, to help the growth and understanding of children whilst also keeping them entertained through theatrical techniques. The National Theatre’s Cat in the Hat, along with our performance pieces of Cranky Bear and Possum Magic all showcased these techniques in a number of ways, whilst also subconsciously coinciding with the child development theories
Guys and Dolls a charming classical musical, known for it’s catchy soundtrack, humorous dialogue and heartwarming plot, is likely to be produced at Signature Theatre in the future.
... the novel. Ranging from clothes, to birds, to the “pigeon house”, each symbol and setting provides the reader with insight into Edna’s personality, thoughts, and awakening.
In The Princess and the Goblin, the author uses many literary devices to bring his writing to life and to illustrate specific moments in the story.
The origin or rather the first collection of The Babysitter and the Man Upstairs was in the early 1960s and this legend continues to be told today. The legend’s emergence and specific origins are unknown; however, attempting to understand why such a legend was told to begin with is not an impossible task. The Babysitter and the Man Upstairs reflects societal anxiety about young girls increasing rejection of feminine expectations and reinforces ideas about traditional gender roles, through the characters, their actions, and the consequences of such actions.
The visual description of a text is the perfect way to wrap the reader’s senses into the story.
Another rhetorical strategy incorporated in the poem is imagery. There are many types of images that are in this poem. For example, the story that the young girl shares with the boy about drowning the cat is full of images for the reader to see: