Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs Essay

The font of the text on the front cover, and throughout the book for that matter, is in an untidy scrawl that is both important - in that it is in a bold font and is a demanding colour (either black or white) - and is informal, imperfect, personal and human - in that it is handwritten. These aspects combine to show the picture-book

Curtis’s ideas and use characters are surprisingly very well used and described during the story. In the first pages of the book, the reader already gets hooked to the story and wants to continue on. The reader is always presented with new problems or ideas especially with a character like Bud. The type of writing always keeps the reader attached to the story. Curtis even achieved to put some humor during the story, which made me laugh. His story is very well constructed and logic. I like his choice of characters and the plot in general. I easily read the book and never got confused on his writing. I highly recommend people to read this book. Adults and children can read it even if Christopher Paul Curtis wrote books for kids. In the books 250 pages, it consists of a very good story and interesting characters.

exciting retelling of the boy’s actions and stories and as well a very good book. Hoose’s use of

The author of The Three Pigs did a tremendous work on transforming a folktale to modern picture book. I choose this book because it so unique from the traditional story of the three little pigs and the wolf. The author was able to use different colors, lines to make great distinction in the illustrations. Thicker, darker lines were used in the illustrations to make the characters and illustrations appear alive. The illustrations were simple and appeals to the eyes of readers. The author definitely took into account the imaginary minds of children. Thinner lines were also used to depict reality in the illustrations. At a first glace of the book, I noticed the grey color of the book was the same color of the sticks that the second pig used to

Within the book the use of illustrations enrich and extend the story, therefore they are relevant to the story. The illustrations give the audience hints as to who the culprit is, and the reasons behind it. There are pages that contain just illustrations, this continues storytelling without use of words. It creates mood that is appropriate for the text, and the illustrations overall combine well with the storyline.

“A book is a device to ignite the imagination”(Alan Bennett). Some authors are able to ignite millions of imaginations with their thought-provoking writing styles. One way they do this is with imagery. Vivid descriptions can make a book enjoyable to read even if the plot is dark and depressing. As well as making the text sound interesting, imagery can provide a better understanding of the themes or characters in the story.

Friday Night Lights is a non-fictional book written by Harry Gerard Bissinger III. Bissinger wrote the book in 1990. Chris Weeden wrote that Bissinger said, “It’s my best book, my most ambitious book, but I knew halfway through it was going to have a very limited audience” (2006). Bissinger was in search of a town controlled solely by sports. Therefore, this search led him to the Permian High School in Odessa, Texas (the setting for the novel). Friday Night Lights shows how a struggling town uses its beloved high school football team to overcome racial problems, political disagreements, and an unprosperous economy.

I like this book because it takes you on an exciting journey following Bill Collins on his adventures with Poetry, Shorty, Big Jim, and Little Jim as they try to find a solution concerning Babe, the blue cow, and the mischief she gets into. This is a good book for all ages because it has no mature content like cursing, and it has an enjoyable story.

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

     Is High School football a sport, or is it more than that to some people? Recent newspaper headlines include such items as coaches abusing student athletes; fathers of athletes murdering coaches, and mother’s disabilitating cheerleading candidates to assure their daughters make the cheerleading team. In Odessa, Texas high school football is a major contributor to the society of a small town in Texas society. Every Friday night, 50,000 people fill the stadium to see high school students put their lives on the line to win a football game. H. G. Bissinger writes a novel called Friday Night Lights, about a year in 1988 where High School players prepare and play on the High School team, and what an impact they have

This made it feel a little like watching a movie. For instance, I could picture Opal, the woman in the chocolate store and imagined her as being skinny with short brown hair. I could really get a sense of the characters. The books was written well in describing the scenery. I could picture the aunt driving up the coast after the funeral and her laying on the bed and eating chocolates and being grouchy. I also like that her pet was a chinchilla. It made her seem even more eccentric and odd.

Fried Green Tomatoes with a hint of Southern Gothic Lit Southern Gothic literature is a type of Southern writing. Southern gothic literature can be found in many old books that date back to the 1900’s. These stories often have a grotesque theme to them. Whether it be supernatural elements, social issues, or a brutal act of violence. Southern Gothic literature has a style of its own.

I love the way the author represents the wild life. The wild life actually seems like our society in some ways. I think that the characters would do anything that it takes to overcome their problems, just like in our community. For example, I could see how the wolves were trying to survive and not to die from hunger. Also, it was really impressive how Henry and Bill tried to protect themselves from the wolves. I was getting curious about how they thought they were going to get away alive from a pack of forty wolves. It seemed pretty hard to me. Anyway, I was surprised as how the group remained. The six dogs and Bill got caught by the wolves and Henry ended up by himself. I thought this was a very good example

The illustrations in The Cat in the Hat really show the story and even if this book was a wordless picture book then children could understand what is going on. I think that goes to show how much the illustrations really do enforce the text. On the very first page, Dr. Seuss establishes the setting with a picture of a house and one can assume that is where the story takes place (Seuss 1). Dr. Seuss uses a lot of visual elements such as lines to show movement and he only uses shades of blue and red to add color to his book. Something else that I found interesting was the fact that he used the seam in the book as a corner in the house. On the first page, you see the house with a window on its side but no door which would presumably be on the left side of the house where the stairs are. When you open to the second page, you see the children sitting at the window. On pages five and six you finally see the door appear on a separate page than the window. If you close the book slightly you can imagine this is a 3-D element to the book. I may be overthinking it but I think that if this was intentional then Dr. Seuss may have been smarter than people give him credit for.

I must admit I could be a little biased with this adult coloring book due to the fact that I LOVE animals. It contains a combination of remarkably detailed pictures that would take me a month to color to simpler ones that are just as magnificent. Such as the picture below that took me a week to finish coloring; I know what you are thinking “You’re kidding me. That Hippo picture took you a week!”. I am still learning to color like an adult and not a four-year-old. Therefore, I am learning with a little a little help from the author not only does Johanna Basford have skills in the drawing department she also has an assortment of tutorial videos on YouTube that has been helpful in improving my coloring technique by shading, making things pop,