What is covered, week by week, and which topics each lecture draws on.

Lectures

Every lecture the course claims to run gets a dated page and a teaching-team reference. A course decides how many lectures it needs; one of them carries a real deck. related: connects lectures to the sessions and assessments they feed.

Week01How Should a Picture Book Behave?The conventions a picture book usually keeps invisible, and why you have to see them before you can break them.SlidesWeek02The Picture Isn’t What You ThinkA picture doesn't just show a scene — every framing choice changes what the reader assumes about it.Week03Words and Pictures DisagreeThe same sentence can mean something different depending on what the picture does with it.Week04The Story Is LyingControlling what a reader believes, and making sure they can find the clues once they know better.Week05The Story Behind the StoryA second story can develop quietly in the background while the obvious story continues in front of it.Week06The Page Is a PlaceThe edge, the gutter, the margin and the text block aren't empty layout — they can become part of the story.Week07Don’t Turn the PageThe page turn hides the next moment until the reader chooses to look — and that gap can be designed.Week08Read It the Wrong WayA book usually suggests one correct reading order. Changing that order can change the story, not just scramble it.Week09The Reader Did ItNot just turning pages or choosing a path — an action the reader has to perform before the story can continue.Week10The Character RefusesA character is supposed to do what the narrator, the text, or the reader expects. Week 10 asks what happens when a character refuses.Week11The Book Knows It’s a BookCover, spine, endpaper, page number and gutter are normally infrastructure. Week 11 asks what happens when the story notices them.Week12Make It MisbehaveThe course stops adding tricks and starts asking which ones a work actually needs — judged by removing them one at a time.