[bksvol-discuss] Re: Describing Pictures In Children's Books
- From: "Jill O'Connell" <jillocon@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:45:07 -0800
For what it's worth, I think books for very young children would have to be
read by blind parents because the books would be in grade II braille and I
don't think little ones would appreciate reading in synthetic speech. And if
I'm right, I don't think really young children who are sighted would appreciate
a book without pictures, even if there were written descriptions, and I doubt
if they were blind the written descriptions pictures would mean much to them. I
know this sounds negative and it is why I have never been enthusiastic about
children's books where pictures are so important. I know of at least two
sources where books have both braille, print and the pictures with their
descriptions which I consider to be far more appropriate for young children.
Bookshare doesn't need to try to fill every niche in my opinion. I'm expecting
a lot of opposition to this opinion, however.
----- Original Message -----
From: Jamie Yates, CPhT
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 3:07 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Describing Pictures In Children's Books
And sometimes, too, Cindy, you don't know a person's ethnicity just from
their color. Not all people who are black are "African-American".
I ask myself the same questions all of the time when I have a children's
book, Cindy. I could easily spend more time describing pictures than scanning
or proofing the rest of the book. How much is enough? How much is too much? I
don't think I've ever stated the color of the people in a picture before
because I usually feel like it's not important. But Ann (I think it was Ann)
made a good point about that being important information.
And Lissi made a good point about the descriptions being at the same reading
level as the book. I've never considered that before.
Jamie in Michigan
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