{"id":2536,"date":"2025-01-28T11:29:22","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T11:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mrsbarkerstearoom.com\/?p=2536"},"modified":"2025-10-23T10:52:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T10:52:04","slug":"the-grown-ups-guide-to-picture-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mrsbarkerstearoom.com\/?p=2536","title":{"rendered":"The Grown-Up&#8217;s Guide to Picture Books"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div id=\"buzzsprout-player-16298639\"><\/div><script src=\"https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/2052306\/episodes\/16298639-47-the-grown-up-s-guide-to-picture-books.js?container_id=buzzsprout-player-16298639&#038;player=small\" type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8216;<strong><em>This stunning book guides readers through storytelling structures, offering classroom activities and encouraging a lifelong love of picture books. An empowering must-own for authors and illustrators, educators and readers. Long live the power of a picture book!\u2019 \u2013 Andrea Rowe, award-winning children\u2019s picture book author<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A teacher&#8217;s dream text! Such a creative way to explore picture books with the added bonus of explicit teacher guides (such as <em>talking points<\/em>) embedded throughout the text. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Use it as a lesson break &#8211; pick a different letter each day and explore how that letter relates to picture books. I loved <strong>J for Joy.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Use it as a core resource for your English program. This text will suit the NSW English outcomes for &#8216;Understanding and Responding to Literature&#8217; (EN3-UARL-01 and EN3-UARL-02) as well as provide young writers with an insight into writing techniques to capture an audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The alphabet structure reminded me of another book we chatted about on a previous podcast&#8230; <em>My Life as an Alphabet . <\/em>Click <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mrsbarkerstearoom.com\/?p=2053\">HERE<\/a><\/strong> to listen to that podcast.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"510\" height=\"787\" src=\"https:\/\/mrsbarkerstearoom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Cover-1-510x787.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2544\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mrsbarkerstearoom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Cover-1-510x787.jpg 510w, https:\/\/mrsbarkerstearoom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Cover-1-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/mrsbarkerstearoom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Cover-1-768x1185.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mrsbarkerstearoom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Cover-1-995x1536.jpg 995w, https:\/\/mrsbarkerstearoom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Cover-1.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;This stunning book guides readers through storytelling structures, offering classroom activities and encouraging a lifelong love of picture books. An empowering must-own for authors and illustrators, educators and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2537,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,65,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-library","category-literature","category-with-this-book-we-can"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrsbarkerstearoom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrsbarkerstearoom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrsbarkerstearoom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrsbarkerstearoom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrsbarkerstearoom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2536"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mrsbarkerstearoom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2649,"href":"https:\/\/mrsbarkerstearoom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536\/revisions\/2649"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrsbarkerstearoom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrsbarkerstearoom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrsbarkerstearoom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrsbarkerstearoom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}