Picture Books Cited

Aardema, Verna. Why Mosquitos Buzz in People's Ears. Illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon. New York: Dial Books, 1975.

Brown, Marcia. Stone Soup. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1947.

Brown, Margaret Wise. Goodnight Moon. Illustrated by Clement Hurd. New York: Harper and Row, 1947.

Brown, Margaret Wise. The Runaway Bunny. Illustrated by Clement Hurd. New York: Harper and Row, 1942.

Geisel, Theodore. The Lorax. New York: Random House, 1971.

Geisel, Theodor. Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories. New York: Random House, 1950.

Johnson, Crockett. Harold and the Purple Crayon. New York: Harper Collins, 1955.

Mayer, Mercer. There's A Nightmare In My Closet. New York: Penguin Books, 1968.

Sendak, Maurice. Where the Wild Things Are. New York: Harper and Row, 1963.

Sendak, Maurice. Into the Night Kitchen. New York: Harper and Row, 1970.

Silverstein, Shel. The Giving Tree. New York: Harper and Row, 1964.

Steptoe, John. Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale. New York : Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, 1987.

Viorst, Judith. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. Illustrated by Ray Cruz. New York: Atheneum, 1972


Academic Sources Cited

Bang, Molly. Picture This: How Pictures Work. New York: SeaStar Books, 2000.

Bang, Molly. Picture This: Perception and Composition. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1991.

Cianciolo, Patricia. Illustrations in Children's Books. Dubuque, Iowa: W. C. Brown Co., 1970.
Downing, John. Reading and Reasoning. New York: Sprigner-Verlag, 1979.

Evans, Janet, ed. What's in the Picture? Responding to Illustrations in Picture Books. London: Paul Chapman Publishing, 1998.

Goldsmith, Evelyn. "Learning from Illustrations: Factors in the Design of Illustrated Eduactional Books for Middle School Children." Word & Image 2.2. (April-June 1986): 111-121.

Gould, Toni. Get Ready to Read: A Practical Guide for Teaching Young Children at Home and in School. New York: Walker and Company, 1988.

Heath, Shirley. Ways with Words: Language, Life and Work in Communities and Classrooms. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.

Hiebert, Elfrieda H. and Taffy E. Raphael. Early Literacy Instruction. New York: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1998.

Hunt, Peter, ed. Understanding Children's Literature. London: Routledge, 1999.

Lippi-Green, Rosina. 2001. "The Educational System: Fixing the Message in Stone." English With and Accent: Language, Ideology, and Discrimination in the United States. Routledge: London.

Marantz, Sylvia S. Picture Books for Looking and Learning: Awakening Visual Perceptions through the Art of Children's Books. Phoenix: Oryx Press, 1992.

National Research Council. Starting Out Right: A Guide to Promoting Children's Reading Success. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1999.

Nodelman, Perry. Words About Pictures: The Narrative Art of Children's Picture Books. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1988.

Spitz, Ellen Handler. Inside Picture Books. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999.

Trudgill, P. Accent, Dialect, and the School. Edward Arnold: London, 1975.

Uhrich, Tabatha and Monica McHale-Small. Simon Says..."Reading Is Fun": Movement-Based Activities to Reinforce Beginning Reading Skills. Lanham: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2002.

Wise, Jessie and Sara Buffington. The Ordinary Parent's Guide to Teaching Reading. Charles City: Peace Hill Press, 2005.