Reading with and without Pictures

The modern primary reader is copiously illustrated, while the books of a generation ago had relatively few pictures. A comparison between the older and the more modern books shows that the present tendency is toward the use of a greater number of illustrations. The publishers of primary readers have increased the quality and the quantity of illustrations, probably in the belief that the books are thereby improved and made more useful. There has also been a change in the technique of picture-making. The black-and-white illustrations and line drawings have been replaced by one-color and two-color pictures, which in turn have been supplanted by pictures in natural colors. Evidence is available showing the techniques of picture-making which are preferred by primary children.'