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             comprises of four pictures that precisely reflects the actions narrated within the text.
             ( NOTE: TWO PHOTOCOPIES OF REFERED ILLUSTRATION FROM "RUNNING AWAY FROM HOME" N.GRAY & G. ROGERS ).
             Picture One: "Sam watched the road for a while." Picture Two: "He took out his .
             Winnie-the-Pooh book." Picture Three: "Sam put his book out and took out his .
             recorder." and lastly Picture Four: "Sam waggled the web a little to give the spider a .
             see-saw. " Browne also reflects this style of text and illustration "mirroring" each other .
             in "Zoo" when he describes the main protagonists father. "laughing so much that tears .
             were rolling down his face." (Note Insert 2) Although no "new" information" is .
             introduced the addition of this paralleling text and illustration allows a reader to .
             "decode" the text, if indeed, initially it proves to complex.
             Text and illustrations also have the ability to compliment each other, by enhancing.
             what is already represented in each element. Such as in N.Gray and G.Rogers .
             "Running Away From Home" The text describes the weather "A wind had sprung up .
             and the trees shimmed and shook like the grass skirts of South Pacific Dancers. The .
             road shone like a stream." The double-paged illustration further accentuates this .
             description and shows people milling around the streets with umbrellas whilst also .
             showing "Sam's house, the road and cars being pounded by the rain.Thus the story is, .
             further enhanced by the favourable addition of the illustrations which further the .
             narration of the story.
             Lastly, within the pages of some picture books there are stories, which deviate from .
             the illustrations given. The illustrations are seen to "contradict" the text and therefore .
             the meaning that was once comprised from the two (both verbal and visual) is now .
             separated. The meaning has been spilt and therefore a reader must work harder to .
             understand what both the author and illustrator are aiming at. The opening page of .


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