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Picture books are not only visual storybooks. They have a much deeper meaning behind the illustrations and the text. Stellaluna, by Janell Cannon, is a well-known classic children’s book. In 1995, it won the Keystone to Reading Book Award but it should also have deserved a Caldecott Medal. The use of visual language and writing combined in this book contributes to the development of the characters and ideas that are related to personal experiences of the reader and society. In this essay I will discuss the language features (visual and written), and ideas in relation to Stellaluna, written and illustrated by by Janell

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