Book Critique For Lulu

“Focuses on the aesthetic aspects of the text (e.g., plot, character development, setting, length and complexity of sentences, word choice, word order, figures of speech, and illustrations)” (Botelho & Rudman, 2009, pg. 25).

The pictures in the book enhanced my appreciation for the book because it gave me a detailed description of certain parts. For example, it was very exciting to see how much the monster destroyed Conor’s grandma’s house, but it was very sad to see how Conor dropped his mother into a hole even if it was a nightmare. The pictures were very different compared to more modern day art because it was all black and white. Nonetheless the black and white color scheme portrayed the dark theme of the book and gave me a better understanding on what was going in

I absolutely love the text, A Bad Case of Stripes. The illustrators use of bright and vibrant colors have always appealed to me. While reading this text, I’m amazed at how the illustrations match certain details of the story perfectly. For example, at school Camilla and her classmates cite “the Pledge of Allegiance, Camilla’s stripes turned red, white, and blue…” The illustrations support the text perfectly, as Camilla is shown with red, white, and blue stripes. This reminds me of a statement in the textbook, “The picture book constructs an intertextuality between the textual and visual representations: the illustrations and text convey the relationship between the pictures and words” (Botelho & Rudman, 2009, pg. 167). While the illustrations

This book is excellent source of an autobiography for this genre because it someone’s personal experience going through breast cancer. Students would like this book because everybody in this world is affected by cancer in some way by either personally. Also, I like this book because it can relate how not to give up and having perseverance through life. In this book, it uses her personal experience to describe the book.

The textures used in the illustrations are specific and are only used to highlight important aspects of the story, if something is not important it does not have as much detail and texture put into it which guides the reader’s eyes. The woodcut style shown in the illustrations also depict the story as a story being passed down an oral tradition.

The author used many certain words in his imagery to make the book seem lighter and darker to create a story and theme in their mind. In the book, there was a lot of suspense

Stories sometimes seem like they have a life of their own, so carefully choosing a story or book to read to children is very important. It might be difficult to find a story that appeals to the teller, as well as the listeners. Selecting and preparing various stories that appeal to the teacher can offer a rewarding experience for everyone. Some criteria to consider are:

Words and images create meaning in a book and throughout this novel you could easily tell. “I draw because words are too unpredictable.I draw because words are too limited.”(5) The main character states this when he talks about why he draws, he draws because he wants to speak to the world. While reading the novel the images that are drawn help you understand more of how the main character feels and what’s going on around him. I believe the author showed illustrations as well to show the readers what they can’t picture alone and have them more engaged in the book. An illustration on page 22 really caught my attention, it’s a brain in a fish tank with another fish. I really liked this illustration because this is how he thinks of his brain because

The children’s book We’re Going on a Bear Hunt utilises the switching between black and white illustrations and full colour effectively. The pages of the story that are in black and white occur when the family meet an obstacle, such as ’long wavy grass’, and once they have overcome said obstacle the illustration returns to colour. It repeats in this manner throughout the picture books entirety. In doing this, the illustrator has emphasised the texts gloominess and foreboding of what the family will have to do (‘we have to go through it’).

Though graphic novels are not recognized as literature by many literary critics, they have the distinction of communicating with pictures in a way that may not be possible with words alone. Themes that would be lost if they were merely sentences on a page are highlighted when set to a graphic novel’s illustration, and graphic novels can connect deeply with the reader through images of war and suffering, such as in the graphic novels Persepolis and Fables.

I noticed the effect of the art in illustrations and how the art can add meaning and emotion. There were two pictures shown in this chapter one with a blue background and the other bright red. The blue picture instantly reminded me of a calm environment whereas the red gave me a sense of anger or distress. I also noticed that pictures books are not only one genre but there is a picture book for every type of genre. Typically picture books are designed for younger readers but students are still interested in picture books as they are older as well. Books are changing depending on what children are interested in today, teachers can continue reading picture books to students to engage and teach a concept.

A key observation I notice in the text is the layout of the picture to content. First of all the margins of the text, the outside margins are bigger than the inside margins. By having the margins like this it gives an impression of thightnes to the text and makes it feel like there is no other place for your eyes. That it seamless flowes from one page to another. The visuals of the text are usually separated from the content but still connected in a way by invisible margins. the imagery is so perfectly aline with chapters name that you could understand what they are talking about without reading a word of the text. This part of the whole reading for me was the most enjoyable, How the content flows nicely into the picture makes the reading easier.

A picture has much to say for those who look, and illustrations are no exceptions. Every time we open a book of fairy tales, there is always an illustration dominating at least a page within the text, as if to say “I 'm here! Look at me! Look at what I have to say about this story!” An illustration can give us details and clues that we may miss in the text, such as those concerning setting. The texture and light and shading can convey a mood or an emotion, lending its depth to the text. As Hallet and Karasek said in “Illustrations,” “there can be no question but that pictures add one more dimension to the various imaginative experiences of reading a tale, being read a tale, and being told a tale.” In short, an illustration, in context, is present to assist the reader 's imagination and to give more detail and depth to the story.

This article discusses the presence of talking animals in The Chronicles of Narnia as well as other works of literature. The author discusses this as one of the supposed differences between children and adult stories. The author also defines what he believes to be the definition of “simple” when talking about children’s literature. The article states that a lot of children’s literature can actually be more complex than adult literature, perhaps not in the use of sophisticated words but in the use of complex concepts and ideas.

Illustrations in pictures are meant to make the use of the book for entertainment. The illustrations that Erin C. Stead uses in her all of her books are woodblock or also known as woodcut printing and then she draws on the top of the prints in pencil to finish the illustration. This type of illustration was used in A Sick Day for Amos McGee. Woodblock printing is a technique that is used to print text, images or patterns. In an interview talking about the illustrations in her and her husband’s book, with MacMillan Children’s on YouTube, the colors that are in the book are stamped onto the page by a piece of wood. She carves each piece of wood into each of the animals that are in the book. After she does that, she rolls the paint onto the piece of wood and presses it to the paper. The colors that the illustrator’s use was blue, yellow, green, gray/black, orange, red, brown, and white. Red, yellow, and oranges, are colors used to make the book suggest it has warmth, cheerfulness,