The Children 's Book Watertower By Gary Crew And Illustrated By Steven Woolman

Throughout many novels authors use physical features or objects as a tool to help explain a deeper meaning of the story. Tim O'brien has also used this technique, by using water to help explain the meaning of many of his stories. O’briens stories about Vietnam and the different aspects surrounding the war, the settings based around water become more than just a physical construct.

An old Chinese proverb says to fish for the moon in the water. In Lan Samantha Chang’s short story “Water Names”, a grandmother tells her granddaughters a story as a way to introduce them to their cultural heritage. This frame story was about Wen Zhiqing’s favorite daughter whose fascination with water escalates after she claims to see a prince in the reflective water. The daughter comes to the conclusion that her prince is real, wants to marry her and wants to take her away to his underwater kingdom. Her parents try to convince her otherwise and keep her from going to the river but after a flood, they lose track of her and she disappears. The grandmother ends the story and leaves the girls to wonder about what actually happened to the

The authors tell the reader that a picture must be interpreted like an essay or piece of writing. The motive and goal of the author or photographer must be figured out.

Furthermore, the illustrations paint a beautiful picture that I like to think is an insight into a child’s mind, which I is a key element in this book and what makes it so great. Since the book is narrated by a child the intentional simplicity of the words and the controlled chaos that is the illustrations breathes unadulterated life into a rather normal children’s book.

Images everywhere! On the billboards, in magazines, newspapers, books, advertisements, on the internet. OH GOD! These days we are bombarded by images. But why? Most people are visually impressed, and quite strikingly, the human “brain is mainly an image processor, not a word processor.” This is due to the fact that “visuals are concrete and more easily remembered, whereas words are abstract and rather difficult for the brain to retain.” Nevertheless, rather surprisingly human beings tend not to analyze images as they would scrutinize a text. The very moment a text is written, it flies from the hands of the writer and moves to the eyes of thousands and thousands of readers to be evaluated and criticized.

Vivid images can be found abundantly throughout the novel and helps to portray scenes to the point where the audience can actually imagine, smell, touch, and hear everything that is going on. “No matter how they scrubbed their hands, the residue of Red Hot Mama had a way of sticking round, as pesty and persistent as a chaperone at a high school dance.” (158). In some instances the audience can acquire a sense, based on the description whether the characters are self absorbed, considerate, or overly concerned about their appearance. “I ought to be shot for looking like this” she’d tell the mirror in the front hall before going out the door. “I look like I’ve been drug through hell backwards,” she would say on and ordinary day. “Like death warmed over. Like something the cat puked up.” (103). The emergence of the images presented in the novel can help present a better understanding and in some cases, a connection to one of the

that an image is created in the reader’s mind. Tone plays an significant role in

“The Water Tower” is a picture book written by Gary Crew and illustrated by Steven Woolman. It is a mysterious book about two boys, Spike Trotter and Bubba D’Angelo, who go out to the Water Tower for a swim and eventually, something unusual happens to Bubba after swimming in the tower. The book indicates various human experiences such as interests for peculiar entities/objects and being intimidated by the unknown.

When I read the book, I found the illustration absolutely attractive. There are bright colors, imaginary and fun creatures, as well as their easy-to-read expressions for kids. On the other hand, the words used in the book were informative enough to include a lot of educational concepts like colors, shapes, sizes, numbers, opposite-adjectives and hilarious enough with its rhyming text. It tells about various kinds of fish and other interesting pets with their own uniqueness, the things they like/dislike to do and the problems that bothering them. Kids could travel together with this boy and girl to get to know these enchanted creatures. As for the answers to some questions, Dr. Seuss left it for the kids to ask from their parents. For the beginning

The illustration of the book is very simple and colorful. The text very bold and big that makes the easy read for children of all ages. For the book to be so simple, it has a big messages. Some children are going through problems that we make them different.

The main theme that is noticeable throughout the exhibition is the unique blur effect that was initially created from a mistake when tampering with the settings in his camera, which is the reason why these photos have so much life and movement.

"Close all shutters and doors until no light enters the camera except through the lens, and opposite hold a piece of paper, which you move forward and backward until the scene appears in the sharpest detail. There on the paper you will see the whole view as it really is, with its distances, its colours and shadows and motion, the clouds, the water twinkling, the birds flying. By holding the paper steady you can trace the whole perspective with a pen, shade it and delicately colour it from nature."

assembled the audience will attach a specific meaning or emotion to it’ (The Kuleshov Experiment

I enjoyed the illustrations of this book. In the beginning of the story, you see a family going through daily life in black and white. As the grandfather begins to tell the story of the town of Chewandswallow to his grandchildren, the illustrations transition into color. For me this was reminiscent of the movie, The Wizard of Oz and a nice touch to separate the grandfather’s

They provide a static cohesive picture that illustrates through images and words the feeling of a particular moment that cannot be done with solely an image or words.