
"I then had to deliver a solo talk called Every Picture Tells a Story, looking at visual literacy. I wanted to show how children need images of depth and ambiguity and emotion if they were going to grow up sophisticated viewers of the world around them. As we wish children to develop as readers and tackle more vocabulary and more subtle inferences in more ambitious writing, so they should develop the ability to appreciate, interpret and understand image.

Source: http://www.jamesmayhew.co.uk/2014/06/stories-from-singapore-part-one.html
I have been thinking about visual literacy while creating the images for my next book. Illustrations that are neither cute nor perfect, but have depth and emotion. I also recently discovered my book is in 43 libraries in Singapore.—JCM
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