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  • Symbolic Annihilation and Symbolic Glorification

    Symbolic Annihilation and Symbolic Glorification

    November 18, 2012

    Symbolic annihilation is used to highlight the erasure of peoples in popular communication, including in children’s books, of course.

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  • Censorship of Children’s Books

    Censorship of Children’s Books

    November 12, 2012

    App stores add an extra layer of ‘censorship’ when it comes to creating content for children.

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  • Reading Pictures Is A Skill In Its Own Right

    Reading Pictures Is A Skill In Its Own Right

    November 4, 2012

    Any sort of close reading of a picture book turns the reader into a semiotician. What does this mean?

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  • The Opposite Of Beer Brewed By Monks

    The Opposite Of Beer Brewed By Monks

    October 12, 2012

    Episode 55 of the 99% Invisible podcast goes into the strange psychological phenomenon whereby certain consumers will pay huge amounts for a scarce commodity. Alcohol and handbags seem especially open to this marketing manipulation, and in this case beer, not because beer connoisseurs are being manipulated per se, but because there is a monastery in Germany whose […]

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  • Glossary of Picturebook Terminology For Review and Analysis

    Glossary of Picturebook Terminology For Review and Analysis

    October 1, 2012

    Is it picture book or picturebook? When commentators put the two words together, they do so mindfully: The terminology we apply to books, texts and reading do not seem to attach to the picturebook so readily. For example, if we speak of ‘the text’ of a picturebook, do we mean the words or the words-and-pictures…

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  • The Secret Self In Storytelling

    The Secret Self In Storytelling

    September 18, 2012

    All of us have a Public, Private and a Secret Self.

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  • Decisions To Make When Storyboarding For Interactive Books

    September 16, 2012

    First things first: Does this story require an active and alert reader, and do the interactions reward interactivity and alertness? 1. Should interactions be user-initiated or autoplay? A mixture? I prefer narration to autoplay, with the option of turning it off completely from the main menu. When I have to press a button to start…

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  • Why So Many Animals In Picture Books?

    Why So Many Animals In Picture Books?

    September 8, 2012

    There are many reasons why storytellers sometimes use anthropomorphised animals as characters in very human stories. Here’s a list.

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  • Do You Look Like Your Dog?

    Do You Look Like Your Dog?

    August 20, 2012

    There are some researchers, who’ve been very lucky with their funding, who have studied the ways in which pets resemble their owners. If you’ve ever been to a dog show you’ll probably have noticed the phenomenon yourself. Sure enough, it’s been noted that when shown a random mixture of owner/pet photos, people are able to match…

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  • Children’s Literature: How scary is TOO scary?

    Children’s Literature: How scary is TOO scary?

    August 11, 2012

    Writing scary tales for children is difficult, because it has to be interesting without being too scary. How is it done? Where’s the line?

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