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Letter: Letter: Every picture . . .

Published 17 July 1993

From DOUGLAS NEWTON

Things may not be so simple. Some pictures might bring to the text ideas
that could only be expressed adequately in relatively complex language.
Others merely reiterate the words and might make reading redundant.
Illustrators may need to review their use of pictures in young children’s
readers and consider carefully the functions they can usefully serve.

Douglas Newton
University of Newcastle upon Tyne

Issue no. 1882 published 17 July 1993

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