Although considered simplistic and easy by many, the illustrated children's book faces at least two challenges that make it interesting even for demanding readers: On one hand, it is addressed to a particularly heterogeneous and broad audience, as its young readers, not yet knowing how to read, require the assistance of adult co-readers.
On the other hand, two codes construct a story that is neither the one narrated by the words nor the one shown by the images, but a third one that emerges from the collaboration of the two. Serving two masters, the illustrated children's book manages to speak simultaneously to the child while also addressing the adult, and at the same time, while being read as a verbal text, it becomes an object of observation as a series of images.
(. . .) [Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]
