Summary Of A Sick Day For Amos Mcgee

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

Clement Hurd’s style of illustrations looks like they were painted and also have very warm colors such as yellow and orange. The bright colors and activity of the pictures look like images that you may see in a Saturday morning cartoon. There is an illustration in this book which has the mother carrying a basket and a gardening tool. She is wearing bright blue overalls with a bright red hat. The flowers are bright yellow, red, pink, and white. These bright colors are present throughout the book. This story is about an adventure that the little bunny takes showing pictures of him on a stormy sea and in a circus show.

Initially, the cover and title page of the book both play a key role in the layout of the story. On the cover, the artistic style of the illustration looks like a cartoon and a painting. This style is very realistic because of the situation portrayed on the cover; yet playful at the same time because of its comical vibe. The cover also looks three-dimensional and the author seems to be using a straightforward perspective of art. This idea is led be true because the child, wall, and table with the fishbowl are all facing towards the reader. The title is also as large in font as the child and fish bowl are. This shows that the cover is relatively proportional in both text and pictures.

Seuss was still able to make reading fun and enjoyable to children. Along the lines of his illustrations, Theodor Geisel was among the first authors to put illustrations equal with text, enabling his readers to follow the action and the story simultaneously. True to his eccentric character and unique perspective, Seuss basically drew things as he saw them. Surprisingly, he had strict guidelines on how to write children's books. There was only one illustration per page and nothing could describe anything pictured. That way, children can work out the story from the illustrations. In addition, his characters are unique. Although his characters may seem simplistic, Seuss' illustrations are inimitable. Through his drawings, word selection, and rhythm, Seuss created subliminal messages for his readers.

As we all know, color is the voice for the artist 's sentiment. It makes up the appearance of a picture. Color is the decisive factor in depths of the two-dimensional plane of the artwork, making the viewer feel physically and mentally attracted, or the context of things - the phenomenon the author wants to present. Colors have been around for a long time, but there is not a common definition for colors. And perhaps humans are one of the luckiest creatures that can identify colors. Often, the recipient 's eye knows a myriad of colors and colors that always change based on the relationship between light and perspective. In art, color creates a sense of

Wells begins to draw using mechanical pencil after that is complete she draws over it in very light blue ink. Then she erases all the pencil lines and has a line image in blue. Wells uses a lot of watercolor especially in this book. She also uses other art media such as gouache, a method of painting using opaque pigments ground in water and thickened with a glue-like substance, pastel, ink, and colored pencils in her illustrations. Not only does she put such effort in her drawings for this book, she also puts boarders around a good majority of her pages. The boarders in My Kindergarten represent what the story tells on that specific page and wraps around the text whether it’s small images or words used as the

The artist used an array of colors in the painting to portray his idea. He used different values of colors to show the objects that are getting direct sunlight and those that are shaded. The trees that are in the sunlight have a lighter value of brown on their trunks and a lighter value of green on their leaves, while the trees that are in the shade have darker brown trunks and darker green leaves. The dirt road is a tan color with spots of darker brown to show where the shade lies from the trees. You can tell that the horses and wagons are in the sun because they have a lighter value of color and the artist used a darker

Book 1: The illustrations do help predict the story’s action and climax, which is simply that the main characters parents come and pick her up from her Nanna and Poppy’s house and she has a realization that, when she gets older and becomes a Nanna, that she wants a house with a hello, goodbye window too. It is easy to predict this outcome with the help of the illustrations, they set a very colorful and happy tone, and if this was simply a picture book without any words you would be able to tell the story very easily.

The author of this book did make use of literary elements to tell the story. These elements are also used in other picture books such as lines, shapes, color and speech bubble. The book is a graphic novel and dialogue takes majority of the writing in the book. The dialogical and concise style of writing of the author including the pictures

What I liked about this book was that the illustrator used a combination of photographs along with drawing and put them in to one big book. I like the stack of letter that are photographed in the begging of the book because they look so real and then having Duncan’s name on write on the front of the letters in crayon is just an awesome way to putting the two creations together and making them one. I also like how each page has a drawing corresponding to that color and they drawing look realistic to how a child would draw a picture. So children can look at that draw and think hey that how I draw my elephant or my dragons and trees. In addition, the book brings in what every child like to do drawing by bring the crayon they draw with to life and giving them a voice to talk.

Illustrations: The illustrations use a variety of colours, but always include blue and red. They are full page, realistically drawn and relatable for children. For example, there are children playing hockey on the outdoor rink, and in a driveway.

She doesn’t write the books as if the children aren’t smart enough to read, she writes her books as though every child will be able to read them. Although she does this she still gives aides to the children and teachers. In some of her books she includes different colored font to show words or phrases of importance. All her books are not the same. She does not use the same writing style in each one. She has used a variety of sentence lengths and types in all of her books. Even though some sentences may be long they are still simple and easy to follow and the children find them interesting. I personally love her books. I love her illustrations and how she labels the pictures. Her books are very kid friendly and the encourage children to ask questions about the pictures. At the end many of her books she includes an information page. The information page has neat facts about whatever the book was about. In her book Apples the information page has a bunch of facts about apples.

On one page crows perch on an animal skull and sky is dark and gloomy. The images psychologically effect how the reader understand the text. On pages where the wolves have returned to the park the painting are vibrant with color, flowers, green grass, and animal close ups. Pages alternate between full page images and text with a small images. There are few exceptions where the text is mixed into the painting on the last four pages.

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.

Theodor Geisel was among the first authors to put illustrations equal with text, enabling his readers to follow the action and the story simultaneously (Kaplan). True to his eccentric character and unique perspective, Seuss "wanted to draw things as [he] saw them (Kaplan)." Surprisingly, he had strict guidelines on how to write children's books. There was only one illustration per page and nothing could describe anything pictured. That way, children can work out the story from the illustrations.