Un album satire de la téléréalité au cycle 3

Picture books in children’s literature used in the classes are complex didactic media for the young reader, especially by their iconotextual dimension, imposing links between text and image, and by the intertextuality/ intericonicity which often characterizes them. The case study proposed in this article aims at clarifying the reasons of the choice by a teacher of cycle 3 of the picture book Seen on the TV, a satire of the reality television, written and illustrated by Claudine Desmarteau. After an analysis of the picture book, the reasons of the teacher’s choice are clarified from interviewes with her. Then the tension between this choice and the cognitivo-cultural difficulties of the pupils is emphasized : reading a picturebook which criticizes the broadcasts of reality television at school indeed raises two issues, the reading of the picturebook as a medium and the relation between

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