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Publications and talks Publications Sue Walker (2005) 'The books that nobody sees: typography in children's reading books', Baseline, no. 48, pp. 25-32 Sue Walker (2005) The songs the letters sing: typography and children's reading. National Centre for Language and Literacy, The University of Reading Caroline Archer, Sue Walker and Linda Reynolds (2004) 'Typography in nineteenth-century children's readers: the Otley connection'. In: Light on the book trade: essays in honour of Peter Isaac, ed. Barry McKay, John Hinks and Maureen Bell, Oak Knoll Press and British Library, pp. 118-129 Linda Reynolds and Sue Walker (2004) 'You can't see what the words say': word spacing and letter spacing in children's reading books', Journal of Research in Reading, vol 27, no.1, pp. 87-98 Sue Walker (2003) 'Towards a method for describing the visual characteristics of children's readers and information books', Proceedings of the Information Design International Conference, 8-11 September 2003, Recife, Brazil [CD-Rom] Sue Walker and Linda Reynolds (2002/3) 'Serifs, sans serifs and infant characters in children's reading books', Information Design Journal 11, 2/3, pp.106-22
Talks Sue Walker, 'Letters for writing and letters for reading: a case for simplified forms', Association Typographique Internationale, September 2005 Sue Walker 'The tales the letters tell: typography in children's readers', Printing Historical Society Conference, University of Cambridge, January 2004 Nicola Robson, 'Isotype for Children', Printing Historical Society Conference, University of Cambridge, January 2004 Sue Walker, 'Towards a method for describing the visual characteristics of children's readers and information books' at Information Design International Conference, Recife, September 2003 Sue Walker, 'A picture is worth . . .'. Some thoughts about words and pictures from a design perspective', Invited talk at Multi-modality and applied linguistics conference (BAAL/CUP), The University of Reading, July 2003 Sue Walker 'Short words and large type: typography and layout in children's readers 1830-1930', Textbook Colloquium, University of London, Institute of English Studies, March 2003 | ||||||||
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New publication for teachers: The songs the letters sing: typography and children's reading This book provides answers to some of the questions that teachers should think about when choosing books for children:
It also includes children's comments:
Available from National Centre for Language and Literacy, The University of Reading, Bulmershe Court, Reading RG6 1HY, UK | ||||||||
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