A visita: diálogo entre texto e ilustração no livro de Antje Damm.

Abstract

The materiality of a book, the style of the illustrations, the colors used, the expressions of the characters; all these elements influence our relationship with a book along with the text. In an illustrated book, not only the written text makes up the narrative, but several elements. Thinking about it, in the light of Nodelman's (1988) and Linden (2011) studies , we propose, in this article, a brief analysis of A visita (Damm, 2018) which won the Best Illustrated Children's Book award by The New York Times. Antje Damm is a German writer and illustrator who, through A visita, created not just a story, but e work of art, making the books’s illustrations through a model. In this study, we present some illustrations from the book, reflecting on the various details that make up them and how they dialogue with the written text and allow the reader to understand the narrative from the relation between text and images.