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The book also marked the beginning of the author's work on the "Best Ever" series. The original edition contains over 1,400 labelled pictures and the book sold over seven million copies in 12 years. [1] [2] The word book is designed to entertain children while teaching them words and numbers. It is divided into subjects on each pair of pages.
Amelia Bedelia is the first book in the popular Amelia Bedelia children's picture book series about a housekeeper who takes her instructions literally. [1] It was written by Peggy Parish, illustrated by Fritz Siebel, and published by Harper and Row in 1963. [2]
Picture books are aimed at young children. Many are written with vocabulary a child can understand but not necessarily read. For this reason, picture books tend to have two functions in the lives of children: they are first read to young children by adults, and then children read them themselves once they begin learning to read.
Through pictures alone, the book tells the story of a lonely girl who uses a red crayon to escape from a mundane world into a magical adventure full of fun and exhilarating adventures. The girl travels on a magic carpet and boat, gets trapped by an evil tyrant, and must find a way to escape along with a purple bird.
These books began as educational tools for young children to tell stories and can still be a useful format for pre-literature children. [1] [2] However, some more recent wordless picture books require the reader to be acquainted with conventions around reading books and can be a fun challenge for older readers. [1]
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; ... Pages in category "Books about irony" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 ...
The book was listed as one of the "Top 100 Picture Books" of all time in a 2012 poll by School Library Journal. [13] As of 2013, it ranked 21st on a Goodreads list of "Best Children's Books." [ 14 ] The book is praised by many parents and school teachers, many of whom requested a trade edition of the book from the publisher. [ 8 ]
Her mature novels employ irony to foreground social hypocrisy. [11] In particular Austen uses irony to critique the marriage market. [12] Perhaps the most famous example of irony in Austen is the opening line of Pride and Prejudice: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a ...