A picture is worth a thousand words: Visual literacy

Social Studies Review, Spring 2003 by Murphey, Carol E

SUGGESTED VISUAL LITERACY RESOURCES SOME TRADE BOOKS:

* Ali, MacDonald, Oakes and Steele, Great Civilizations of the East, Hermes House, London, 2002

* Cohen, Daniel, Ancient Egypt, Doubleday, N.Y., 1990

* Demi, Chingis Khan, Henry Holt and Company, N.Y. 1991

* Goodman, Robin and Fahnestock, Andrea, The Day Our World Changed, Children's Art of 911, New York University Child Study Center and The Museum of the City of New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 2002

* Hernandez, Xavier and Comes, Pilar, BARMI, A Mediterranean City Through the Ages, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1990

* Holcroft, Harry, The Silk Route, From Europe to China, Pavilion Books Ltd., 1999

* Huntington Library, The Art of Cartography, (postcards) Pomegranate Art books, San Francisco, Rohernt Park, CA., 1991

* Lawrence, Jacob and Myers, Walter Dean, The Great Migration, The Museum of Modern Art, N. Y., Harper Collins Publishers, 1993

* Liebling, Roslyn, Time Line of Culture in the Nile Valley and it's Relationship to Other World Cultures, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 1979 (maybe out of print)

* Jackdaw Publications, Elizabeth R, Posters and primary historical documents from the reign of Elizabeth I.

* James, Simon, Eye Witness Books, Ancient Rome, Alfred A. Knopf, N.Y. 1990

* James, Simon, Editor, see Through History, Ancient Rome, Viking Penguin, N.Y., 1992

* Johnson, Sylvia, Mapping the World, Antheneum books for Young Readers, N.Y., 1999

* Macaulay, David, Castle, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1974

* Macaulay, David, Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1973

* MacDonald, Fiona, Timelines Cities, Citizens and Civilization, Franklin Watts, N.Y., 1992

* Mason, Antony, The Children's Atlas of Civilizations, Millbrook Press, Brookfield, Conn., 1994

* Morrissey, Brendan, Boston 1775: The Shot Heard around the World, Osprey Publishing, Botley, Oxford, UK, 1993

* Morrissey, Brendan, Yorktown 1781: The World Turned Upside Down, Osprey Publishing, Botley, Oxford, UK, 1999

* Norman, Lilith, The Paddock, Alfred Knopf, N.Y. 1993

* Panzer, Nora, Editor, Celebrate America in Poetry and Art, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Hyperion books for Children, N.Y.,1994

* Perring, Stefania and Dominic, Then and Now, MacMillan, N.Y. 1991

* Ray, Deborah Kogan, Hokusai. The Man Who Painted a Mountain, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, N. Y., 2001

* Small, Deborah, & Jaffe, Maggie, 1492: What Was It Like to be Discovered? Monthly Review Press, N.Y., 1991

* Steele, Phillip, The Aztec News, Candlewick Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1997 The history and lives of the Aztecs, 1100 A.D.-1521 A. D. in the form of newspaper articles.

* Sullivan, Charlie, Editor, Here is My Kingdom, Hispanic-American Literature and Art for Young People, Harry Abrams Inc., N.Y. 1994

* Sullivan, Charlie, Editor, Children of Promise, African-American Literature and Art for Young People, Harry Abrams Inc., N.Y. 1991

* Von Tscharner, Renata and Fleming, Ronald Lee, New Providence: A Changing Landscape, Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich, 1987