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34 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
University of Reading : B - Typography & Graphic communication
Book design for children’s reading: typography, pictures, print
This research considers the factors that have influenced the design of books for teaching young children to read, including educational directives and reports, legibility research, methods of teaching reading, the availability of typographic resources and the economic constraints faced by publishers. The book includes numerous illustrations including an annotated timeline showing examples of reading books published in each decade from the 1890s to the end of the twentieth century. The underlying method for the description of the graphic attributes of reading books is described in Walker, S. (2012) ‘Describing the design of children’s books: an analytical approach’. Visible Language, 46 (3). ISSN 0022-2224
