ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses some of the comments children made about reading visual texts in an attempt to understand the thought processes behind these skills. It discusses how the children describes the artistic processes involved in making a picturebook and how they relate this process to their own creative experiences. Tamsin's explanation of how she read pictures and comments made by other children about way in which they interpret image. The children were aware of thinking, looking, and planning required to achieve all this successfully and of the possibility of making and rectifying mistakes. Children can be encouraged to bring their experience with other visual media to the classroom and use it to understand the processes of reception and creation and, in turn, reflect upon it, whether it be the latest computer games or ancient stained-glass windows. The children were also able to go inside their own heads to describe what they were thinking and feeling as they read a picture.
