{"id":22,"date":"2019-04-16T06:35:35","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T06:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bogglingbooks.com\/?p=22"},"modified":"2023-12-02T08:29:32","modified_gmt":"2023-12-02T07:29:32","slug":"jumping-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inkylarks.com\/it\/jumping-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome, Picturebook Writers and Illustrators!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I will start with 3 posts on biographical picturebooks as part of my Children’s Literature course at Roehampton University. I hope you will join in with your own reflections, book suggestions and creative work!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I\u2019ve been to visit John Keats in Rome on many occasions: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

as a little girl with my granny, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

as a complete-works-biography-and-letters-clutching university student, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

and most recently for an electrifying reading by my teenage heartthrob, Julian Sands. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So when I finally got to visit Wentworth Place, the home in Hampstead where Keats wrote Ode to a Nightingale, I was surprised to feel quite deflated. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

I know this sounds nonsensical, but the house felt empty. I found some portraits and cabinets. A death mask. Some informative panels. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But not my John Keats!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sometimes, I think, this can happen with children\u2019s biographical reference books. With all their photos, timelines, glossaries and maps they can actually miss the essence, the point of it all: the person. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is where the biographical picturebook comes in: a highly flexible, polisystemic literary form, which combines historical accuracy to engage and inform, with narrative cohesion to move and delight.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The three picturebooks we will be exploring together (Barb Rosenstock and Mary Granpre\u2019s The Noisy Paint Box: The Colours and Sounds of Kandinsky\u2019s Abstract Art<\/em>, Pam Mu\u00f1oz Ryan and Brian Selznick\u2019s When Marian Sang: The True Recital of Marian Anderson<\/em>, and Chis Hadfield and the Fan Brothers\u2019 The Darkest Dark<\/em>) have been selected from a long list of alliteration loving, time-line flapping creative history books. They all present an extended narrative section, the text proper, and a wealth of paratextual elements, which substantiate, complement and, sometimes, alter our reading of the text. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I chose them to investigate the following questions: why the picturebook? Why adopt this literary form to write about history and biography for children? How can it be harnessed to deliver the richness of human experience in only 8 sheets of printed, folded and bundled paper?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I hope you will join in with your own reflections, questions and suggestions.
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