I have always loved pictures for what they teach all of us about writing and reading and illustrating. I offer this repost of Beth’s blog because I couldn’t have said it any better.
What “counts” as reading? Well it turns out that lots of people have an opinion on that question, or more accurately, what doesn’t count as reading. Here’s what I’ve been told doesn’t count as reading, either explicitly or implicitly:
- Picture books
- Audiobooks
- Graphic novels
- YA lit
- Choice reading in class
- Anything other than the canon of old, dead white guys
- Anything a kid might actually enjoy
As recently as just a couple weeks ago, I was celebrating the number of books I’d read in 2013 and someone told me that picture books don’t “count” as books. I probably shouldn’t have been so indignant about such a statement since only a few years ago, I felt the same way. But thanks to this wonderful community of readers known as Nerdy Book Club, I have since seen the light.
So often picture books are looked upon as a lesser form of reading…
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