Typically, Civil War scrapbooks were filled with old newspaper clippings and contained minimal text.
It's hard to grope for meaningful subtext when such minimal text lacks point.
Both this book and its companion, My Beak, Your Beak, feature big, bold, eye-catching illustrations and minimal text.
Picture books usually contain minimal text and are illustrated in full colour, most often in large 32-page format.
Historically they have included minimal text because the photographs of clothes, bags and shoes are meant to do the talking.
The minimal text is splendidly paired with Susan L. Roth's textural, earth-toned collages, which evoke the roughness of the terrain and the primitive quality of life there.
While some visual detail gets lost on the smaller pages, the minimal text and simple seasonal story are just right for the board book's audience.
In another sequence, Skim and Ms. Archer sip tea without ever making eye contact, the pictures and minimal text communicating the uncomfortable emotional charge in the room and the two characters' difficulty in knowing what to say to each other.
In his arrestingly powerful series on the natural world, which includes Birds (1967), Wild Animals (1967), Fishes (1968) and others, his vibrant illustrations are matched by a minimal text: "a stare of owls", "a school of butterfly fish".
With just two photos and minimal text, the advertisements contrast what they call "Retro" icons -- Newt Gingrich, Mel Gibson, oil derricks and a map of Alabama -- with "Metro" ones -- Hillary Rodham Clinton, Michael Moore, solar-powered windmills and a map of California.
The Pioneer Woman blog, with its plein-air shots of ranch life, anthropomorphized animals, adorable children, and bright, glistening food, puts one in mind of a glossy lifestyle magazine with minimal text and colorful, inviting images.
