Picture books are not always used to entertain children they can be used to describe an expression or feeling within a picture. Picture books use complex language ideas, symbolism and technical aspects to structure a picture book this is used very much in Brownin Bancroft book The Whalers and is what I will be talking about in the following text. Symbolism is used as an important aspect of a picture book it helps the reader interpret the text and visualise the pictures illustrated in the book by having symbolism or symbolic codes we as the reader can see what is happening before we even read the first word of the text, for example in the picture book The Whalers on one of the pages a whale is being killed and before you even determine what is going to happen when you read it because it uses aboriginal paintings to symbolise blood, weapons and …show more content…
Technical aspects are mostly visual and appear in picture books, The Whalers is a good example because the native slang used defines the book as being real it makes the reader think about the language used. Another example is that it has no boarder so it makes the reader feel like they are in the book or apart of it. On some of the pages the colours are dark and on some light this determines weather the mood of the book is sad or happy for example the aboriginals killed a whale to feed themselves on this page it used dark colours like black dark blue and reds to convey sad emotions so that is also a technical aspects or code, the layout of the text in this picture book is different it has pictures that spread onto both pages so by having a boarder around the text it feels like you are in the story but it is being told to