Meerkat Mail by Emily GravettCall Number: G JF GRA
ISBN: 9781509836130
Publication Date: 2016
Perspectives
This book conveys meaning to the reader through multiple perspectives.
In Meerkat Mail, there is information contained in the standard text of the story, but also in letters and postcards, blackboards, newspaper reports, travel documents, photo albums, luggage labels, and the cover and endpapers. Other books may use elements such as comic strips, lists, or sets of instructions in a similar way.
The reader can choose to make meaning from these elements in various combinations; reading is then performed in a non-linear sequence as the reader chooses in which order to read. Some readers may choose to go back and forth to the photo albums throughout the story for example.