LINES, SQUIGGLES, LETTERS, WORDS

(Hardback)

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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 atthe 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, whenthe childstarts to go toschool and begins to learn his letters, his way of seeing begins tochange.

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"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. Ages 3--6. (Nov.)" -- Publishers Weekly

Author Bio

Madalena Matoso is an award-winning illustrator from Lisbon, Portugal, whose quirky and graphically striking imagery saw her win Portugal's coveted National Prize of Illustration in 2008.