{"id":3440,"date":"2014-06-26T07:43:23","date_gmt":"2014-06-26T13:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3440"},"modified":"2014-06-26T11:37:59","modified_gmt":"2014-06-26T17:37:59","slug":"spreading-the-good-word-about-visual-literacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3440","title":{"rendered":"Spreading the Good Word about Visual Literacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/SS111110FM031francoise.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><strong><font size=6>&#8220;<\/strong><\/font><em><strong><font color=\"#777777\">In our increasingly visual culture we expect readers to respond to pictures. Yet when children approach third grade, there\u2019s mounting pressure to narrow their reading to chapter books &#8212; books with no pictures at all. My mission with the new line of TOON Graphics is to make books for readers ages 8 and up that offer both rich text and captivating image &#8212; books that promote both verbal and visual literacy.\u201d<\/font><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This morning over at <em>Kirkus<\/em>, I chat with designer and editor <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fran%C3%A7oise_Mouly\">Fran\u00e7oise Mouly<\/a><\/strong> about the launch of TOON Graphics, and I&#8217;ll follow up here at 7-Imp next week with some art from their three debut titles. <\/p>\n<p>The Q&#038;A is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/promoting-verbal-iandi-visual-literacy\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>Until tomorrow &#8230; <\/p>\n<p><center>* * * * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo used with permission of Fran\u00e7oise Mouly.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In our increasingly visual culture we expect readers to respond to pictures. Yet when children approach third grade, there\u2019s mounting pressure to narrow their reading to chapter books &#8212; books with no pictures at all. My mission with the new line of TOON Graphics is to make books for readers ages 8 and up that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogger-interviews","category-picture-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}