FREE COURSE - BOOKS, COMICS, FILM & TV : VISUAL WORLDS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE

I signed up for this course because I'm interested by visual worlds produced for young people.
From picturebook, comics, film to TV with this course we will look at the images that children are exposed.

The 1st week is about PICTUREBOOK :

My interpretation of a picturebook is one where the illustrations telling the story without needing text.
Picturebooks are essentially for babies because they are dominated by visuals and have other features as texture and several objects attached to them as mirrors.
But today there are many picturebook apps for children available online.
Are you for this kind of apps ?
Do you think that the experience is the same or restrained ?

What was your favorite picturebook of all time or when you were younger ?

See you next week to talk about COMICS !

I'm aware of these apps and I'm in favour of any media that gets children "reading" and "thinking" and sharing time with others.

I don't understand what you mean by "restrained". I don't think the experience is the same but it could be better or not as good dependant on the source, the child and the context.

I can't remember my childhood picture books so well but I remember my children enjoyed "where the wild things are" amongst others.

And your answers to these questions?

I understand what you mean John. I don't know but maybe apps encourage children to read.

By restrained I mean "strictly regulated reading" I never used these picturebook apps but I don't think they are a space for freedom and exploration for children.

Oh I know this picturebook ! Thank you for sharing John

Of couse I answered to these questions ! I'm waiting next week for my next class and I hope until then that my classmates will have answered...

Hi Yvanilde !

I have to admit that I don't remember any of picturebooks that I read when I was younger. The only thing that I remembered is the first manga that I read when I was able to read which is Dragon Ball. Moreover, in our community, the development of the children is not as important as the one in occidental cultures so children are not in contact with these kind of things. I think that you get interest in it only if you want to.

Hi Blong,

No worries Blong, I forgive you because you are the cutest person that I know !

You may answer for my next lesson about comics, be ready !

My favourite books when I was young were Tom Tom & Nana. What I liked the most in these books was the stupid things which they could make. Moreover, I was in love with Nana. I think that she is so cute with her hair and her little voice. I used to go to the librairie to borrow the books that I didn't have.