Lines, squiggles, letters, words /
Rocha, Ruth,
Lines, squiggles, letters, words / Ruth Rocha ; illustrated by Madalena Matoso ; translated from the Portuguese by Lyn Miller-Lachmann. - First English-language edition. - 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
A child who has not yet learned how to read looks out at the world and sees language as such a child would: as lines and squiggles that don't exactly make pictures but don't seem to make anything else either. Then, when the child starts to go to school and begins to learn his letters, his way of seeing begins to change.
Translated from the Portuguese.
1592702082 9781592702084
Signs and signboards--Juvenile fiction.
Schools--Juvenile fiction.
English language--Alphabet--Juvenile fiction.
Picture books for children.
Picture books.
Lines, squiggles, letters, words / Ruth Rocha ; illustrated by Madalena Matoso ; translated from the Portuguese by Lyn Miller-Lachmann. - First English-language edition. - 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
A child who has not yet learned how to read looks out at the world and sees language as such a child would: as lines and squiggles that don't exactly make pictures but don't seem to make anything else either. Then, when the child starts to go to school and begins to learn his letters, his way of seeing begins to change.
Translated from the Portuguese.
1592702082 9781592702084
Signs and signboards--Juvenile fiction.
Schools--Juvenile fiction.
English language--Alphabet--Juvenile fiction.
Picture books for children.
Picture books.