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Lines, squiggles, letters, words / Ruth Rocha ; illustrated by Madalena Matoso ; translated from the Portuguese by Lyn Miller-Lachmann.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Portuguese Publisher: Brooklyn, New York : Enchanted Lion Books, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: First English-language editionDescription: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1592702082
  • 9781592702084
Uniform titles:
  • Menino que aprendeu a ver. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Summary: 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.
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Item type Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Dr. James Carlson Library Children's Picturebook Books & Reading Rocha Ruth Available 33111008576593
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's Picturebook Books & Reading Rocha Ruth Available 33111008514974
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Sensitively illustrated to show how a child might see and relate to words before learning how to read.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.

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.

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