Choose from the list of topics below to write your essay. Include examples from the literary work to support and validate your arguments.Genre Analysis
•Select a reading/text that falls into any one of the following genres: poetry and verse, picture books, or fairy tales. Analyze how and why the text is a good example of the genre. This requires analyzing specific elements of the text as evidence to support your argument.Picture books
•What are some ways in which picture books rely on design and production elements for their artistic effects and to make meaning? Select 1-3 works and analyze both visual and verbal elements.
•What is a concept book? What is a concept book’s significance to the development and origins of children’s literature? Select 1-3 works to identify and analyze how and why they are examples of a concept book.
•What are the differences between a picture book and an illustrated book? Select 1-3 works to
1) identify them as a picture book or illustrated book and 2) establish why they are either a picture book or illustrated book.
