LINES, SQUIGGLES, LETTERS, WORDS

Ruth Rocha, Madalena Matoso

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LION PUBLISHING GROUP
17 November 2016

Children's & Educational; Early learning: first word books

Sensitively illustrated to show how a child might see and relate to words before learning how to read.

A child who has not yet learned how to read looks out at the world and sees language as such a child would: as lines and squiggles that don't exactly make pictures but don't seem to make anything else either. Then, when the child starts to go to school and begins to learn his letters, his way of seeing begins to change.

By: Ruth Rocha
Illustrated by: Madalena Matoso
Imprint: LION PUBLISHING GROUP
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 241mm, Width: 286mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 482g
ISBN: 9781592702084
ISBN 10: 1592702082
Pages: 40
Publication Date: 17 November 2016
Recommended Age: From P
Audience: Children/juvenile , English as a second language , English as a second language
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ruth Rocha is a Brazilian children's book writer, and one of the leading exponents of the new wave of Brazilian children's literature. She debuted in the literary field in 1967, writing articles for several magazines on education. In 1976, she published her first book entitled Palavras Muitas Palavras. Her current work has more than 130 published titles, 500 editions and translations to over 25 languages; also, it has sold about 17.5 million copies in Brazil and 2.5 million copies overseas.

Reviews for LINES, SQUIGGLES, LETTERS, WORDS

Rocha's text is marvelously child-centered, never leaving Pedro's perspective and realistically evoking the way letter acquisition turns nonsense into sense for most children. Matoso's striking, posterlike illustrations use a limited palette of, mostly, red, pink, blue, black, and olive, allowing figures and patterns to occasionally merge with negative space, visually reinforcing the mental gymnastics involved in deciphering letters, her awareness of environmental print as keen as Pedro's. This will have many children looking for meaning all around them. -Kirkus Reviews It's a smart, thoughtful chronicle of learning in action, and it would pair well with Sergio's Ruzzier's recent This Is Not a Picture Book! for discussions about how literacy transforms the unfamiliar into the known. -Publishers Weekly A wonderful celebration of the way words work, and a reminder than reading is as much as about visual literacy as it is about text literacy. -Kids' Book Review A Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) Choice Selection for 2017 A 2017 USBBY Outstanding International Book