Indications of implied reader and audience through layout in two New Zealand informational picturebooks

Abstract

I examine two New Zealand narrative nonfiction picturebooks published to mark the 125th anniversary of women’s suffrage. I analyse the layout to show that this clearly indicates who the implied reader or audience of the books are. The aspects of layout analysed include the ratio of paratextual to narrative text given, the colour, detail and space given to illustrations, the relative text size, and linguistic landscape.