Blog A: Postmodern Picture books- Voices In The Park by Anthony Browne. Posted by Karin Allan ETL402.

'Voices in the Park" clearly demonstrates many elements of Postmodernism.
The picturebook has four separate scenarios that run alongside each other but where the characters all end up in the park and interact with oneanother at different times.
Each character is represented with different styles of type, bright colours and with pictures that can be looked at over and over again and through doing so one notices things maybe not previously seen.
The characters are gorillas but speak like humans displaying human feelings and emotions.
The text has an everyday conversational tone which would appeal to children both of a young age and older. Pet dogs feature prominently and seem to get on better than the 'human gorillas' do. Though the adults demonstrate images of despair and meanness the children connect and the ending has positiveness and hope.The varied illustrations with bright colours and lifelike images displaying varied shapes, shadows, sizes and images would be enormously appealing to young children and older readers.