Picture books for older readers?

Carol Hurst's describes on her Children's Literature website how to deal with the increasing numbers of picture books aimed at older and more sophisticated readers. The challenge is for teachers and librarians to make those encounters more meaningful and enjoyable.

She offers several techniques, including storyboarding, and drawing pictures as a group.
Students are also encouraged to find the picture book they loved most or remember best from when they were little. Then each should find a picture book they've discovered more recently that they really like, and compare them with the picture book from their childhood.

Another activity has students scan the Internet to find websites of various authors and illustrators of children's picture books. Students choose an author or illustrator of picture books whose work they admire. They construct an exhibit of the artist and his or her work.

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