Dream traces: a picture book reading Celestine's birth by Gabrielle Vincent

Abstract

This article aims to taking a read of the book Celestine’s birth (2014), by Belgian writer and illustrator Gabrielle Vincent. The picture book in question brings images that tell the story, having the presence of few sentences representative of Ernest Bear's dialogues and writing in your diary, which creates a magnification relationship between text and image, in addition to providing the reader an aesthetic experience that broadens perceptions through openings and movements in the traces. The illustrations present in the book are similar to sketches, as drawings yet to receive the final finishes, thatis, are different from realistic representations, oreven the ready-made and colourful drawings so common in children's books, and yet they are also beyond the sketch, presenting itself as an aesthetic proposal. Theoretical postulations of children's literature and illustration scholars as Peter Hunt (2010), Sophie Van der Linden (2011), Maria Nikolajeva e Carole Scott (2011), and others, Will be evoked for reflection of the  relationship between words and images brought in the book.