10/12: challenging myself as well

In my picturebooks seminar we tend to focus our analysis on the images and words separately rather than on the elusive dynamic between the two.  I told the students that the word/image relationship had to be the focus of tomorrow's class so they should examine it in our various stories as they prepare.  I enjoyed making myself focus on it this evening, too, and finding some cool things to point out to the class tomorrow gave me real pleasure.