I am currently taking TE 301 and part of the class is getting field experience and tutoring a child once a week. This week I read a book with my student, Blaize, on cats. The book was a textual book rather than a storybook; it started off discussing the history of cats becoming pets then the anatomy of cats and how cats think. On each set of pages there was text on one side and a photograph on the other side.
What I am wondering is; is this considered a picture book? Technically yes this is considered a picture books because we learned they can be fiction or non-fiction, but the pictures did not enhance the text at all. If the book was re-printed without any pictures the reader would not loose or gain anything because the pictures were just portraits of cats. Some of them were close ups of their face others just of their bodies. I guess the book would be considered an illustrative book but the way that I interpret illustrations is that the pictures would be drawn rather than photographs. For example in encyclopedias there are sometimes small pictures and although a picture book is not a genre, how could the book be a encyclopedia and a picture book?
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