How do I select images pasted into iWork Pages?

Hi. I would like to easily select images that I have pasted into Pages, manipulate them, and reposition them. This seems like it should be really easy and amount to clicking on the image and dragging it to a new location. Instead, the cursor just keeps selecting text instead of the image. I find that if I click repeatedly on top of them then they get randomly selected. However, doing so wastes a lot of my time and I often can only resize and not reposition them when it happens. This is very frustrating to me. I've tried pressing ^, fn, etc... but I cannot find any combination that works better than clicking over the image a hundred times.

Is there an easy way to select images instead of text?

Thanks for your help!

 

Thanks for the reply, wordmunger. I tried the help file suggestion but that didn't really work. I saw the selection handles but then when I clicked on the image it reselected the text.