Learning outcomes

After studying this course, you should be able to:

• understand how images communicate meanings to the readers of children’s books

• understand the role of cultural knowledge in making sense of images

• understand how words and pictures can reinforce or contradict one another in a text, with interesting results

• recognise the work of some famous illustrators for children

• understand how the use of images in children’s books has changed over time and what it means to create books for the specific audiences of children and their carers.