[bksvol-discuss] Re: Describing Pictures In Children's Books
- From: "Jill O'Connell" <jillocon@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 18:26:28 -0800
I was interested in your response. We raised three sighted children and back
then I had friends helping me braille the story an picture descriptions for the
print book because without the actual pictures, I agree with you, the books
would have meant nothing. I would be very interested to see Bookshare's records
on how many of these books are being downloaded.
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From: Bob
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 6:03 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Describing Pictures In Children's Books
Jill, I completely agree with you.
When my kids were very young my ex- and I got a large number of the books
with braille and print on them, and the kids loved it.
When my youngest was about five I thought to increase her reading world by
ordering talking books for young kids. She and I agreed to spend forty-five
minutes each evening listening to the books together. She was very excited
about it, and so was I. However, five minutes into the first book my daughter
went to sleep. We tried it for four more nights with the same result. When I
asked her why she kept falling asleep, she said "I don't have anything to do."
Kids need to interact with a book when they first start reading, and I don't
think synthesized speech on a computer can compete with Barney or power rangers.
Just my thoughts.
Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: Jill O'Connell
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 6:45 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Describing Pictures In Children's Books
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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