VISUAL ELEMENTS
This visual element consists of continuous stroke marks that define shapes and can create texture.
What are lines?
This artistic medium involves assembling different forms, such as real objects or pieces of cut or torn paper, to create an illustration.
What is collage?
This removable paper cover protects a book from soiling.
What is a dust jacket?
A book reflects a child's own life, culture, or community and validates the child's experiences.
What is a mirror?
Literature by and about groups marginalized, misrepresented, or disregarded by the dominant culture within the reader's country is called this.
What is multicultural literature?
This visual element refers to the spatial forms of a picture produced when lines and areas of color join or intersect.
What is shape?
Oils, acrylics, watercolors, gouache, and tempera are all examples of this artistic medium.
What is painting?
These pages are glued to the inside front and back boards of the cover.
What are endpapers?
A book gives children a view into real or imagined worlds that differ from their own.
What is a window?
Literature set in a country or global culture outside the reader's own culture is called this.
What is global literature?
This element refers to the distance from one point to another and can make an illustration appear shallow or create an illusion of depth.
What is space?
This artistic style represents natural forms accurately without idealization.
What is realistic art?
This illustration faces the title page and is intended to establish the tone and entice readers to begin the story.
What is a frontispiece?
A book invites readers to imagine themselves actually entering and experiencing another world or perspective.
What is a sliding glass door?
This type of global literature was originally published outside the reader's location and made available through translation or adaptation.
What is international literature?
The tactile surface characteristics of objects—or the reader's impression of how an object feels—are represented by this visual element.
What is texture?
This style emphasizes emotion and may exaggerate features or eliminate competing details to communicate a central message.
What is expressionistic art?
This refers to the style of print used throughout a book; its size and legibility should fit the intended audience.
What is typeface?
A child reads a story about a family whose cultural traditions are similar to her own. The book primarily functions as this.
What is a mirror?
This term refers to the extent to which a book reflects the core beliefs and values of a cultural group.
What is cultural authenticity?
An illustrator combines line, shape, color, space, texture, and other visual elements on a page. This overall arrangement is called this.
What is composition?
An illustration combines realistic objects with strange, dreamlike images that do not normally belong together. What artistic style is being used?
What is surrealistic art?
A teacher asks students to examine the cover, title page, endpapers, illustrations, paper, typeface, and binding before reading. What larger concept are students analyzing?
What is book design?
A teacher chooses a book about a culture unfamiliar to her students and asks them to imagine what it might be like to live within that community. The book is functioning most strongly as this.
What is a sliding glass door?
A teacher notices that a collection has many books about one cultural group but very few—or none—about another. Which evaluation criterion should the teacher consider?
What is representation?