La pastora y el deshollinador: libro álbum ilustrado

Abstract

The picturebook became an important tool when trying to develop a linking for reading, since the middle decades of the last century, because it entertains at the same time it educates the reader, in a simple way. Addressed to children, young people and adults, it’s obvious that the public that benefits from this literary and artistic product is variated. By combining the written word with the visual image, it becomes an attractive resource to awake a certain curiosity for trying to re signify symbols. This project tries to take advantage of the historical investigation about the picturebook, that origins from children illustration, analyzing its most important artistic references and counterparts; to create a picturebook that recreates the children’s story The Shepherdess and the Sweep, by Hans Christian Andersen, in an Ecuadorian context. The final artistic product will try to rescue one of many literary works that had been neglected by the current public, giving it a fresh look to this “old” story; also, trying to recreate characters, sceneries and circumstances that will relate, in a subtle way, with the current Ecuadorian people.