As they grow older children are better able to describe what is actually happening in illustrations. Even so picture-book stories will still have to be simple focusing on the main character and with great repetition stories that attempt to spread the main action into sub-plots will remain too complex. A distinction can be made between picture-books where illustrations complement a generally rather spare text and story-books in which illustrations play a more subordinated role to a longer text. In picture-books where the story should not go much beyond a certain number of words in order to hold a child’s concentration successfully, the economy that can appear when pictures complement rather than repeat a text, is a valuable one because it’s given the young reader the chance to learn to use pictures as an essential part of the story. This possibility of reader involvement is another characteristic of the successful picture-book and is important for children still unskilled in reading words.
COMICS
A good kind of literature available for this age-group can be found in comics, which are normally associated with humour and melodramatic adventure. But infant comics aimed at children between 4-7 are nothing like this. They carry pages of things for a child to do like pictures to colour, dolls to cut out, puzzles, dots that gabe to be joined, games which offer the child an opportunity to experiment with early perceptual and motor-coordination skills.
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