ABSTRACT

When children looked at the front cover of the picturebook Strawberries, a boy cried, “strange! strange!”; another boy cried, “too big!, too huge!”; and yet another boy cried, “doesn’t look delicious”; a girl shook her head saying nothing, but seemed to express the feeling, “I don’t want to eat it”; another girl said, “why is it so red all over the cover?, I want a strawberry to be only red”; a boy said, “scared, perhaps because of the black shadowy lines on the strawberry”; and a girl said quietly, “I like it.”