The BFG The BFG was written by Roald Dahl, illustrated by Quentin Blake and published by Puffin. This book is aimed at children aged 7-11, or more specifically 9-11, to help children build their reading skills. The story is traditional lit, containing Mythical beasts such as giants. This book has large blocks of text, even full pages, using a serif font and large spacing’s, more complicated language also occasionally using italic text. The text tends to stay normal, straight lines and the same font. Using some illustration, these illustrations help the child to understand what is going on easier, they are black and white, water colour illustrations. These images usually follow a short paragraph at the bottom of the page This book used rigid, rough looking drawings that use water colour to demonstrate what is happening in the story. This book has 224 pages, as this is a book for 7-11 year olds, and the pages are 12.9 x 19.8 cm. As this book is mostly aimed at older children, with more advanced reading and using less imagery, I don’t think that I will use this page size. Quentin Blake “I do a freewheeling sort of drawing that looks as though it is done on the spur of the moment. However even a single drawing needs a certain amount of preparation and planning.” http ://www.quentinblake.com/index.php/about-drawing/how-i-draw Blake does a rough sketch to find how the character stands, their expressions, and how to fit the onto the page. He uses the rough copy, on top of a light box, covered by water colour paper and draws an improved version on the top layer, with
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The BFG
The BFG was written by Roald Dahl, illustrated by Quentin Blake and published by Puffin. This book is aimed at children aged 7-11, or more specifically 9-11, to help children build their reading skills. The story is traditionallit, containing Mythical beasts such as giants. This book has large blocks of text, even full pages, using a serif font and large spacing’s, more complicated language also occasionally using italic text.The text tends to stay normal, straight lines and the same font.
Using some illustration, these illustrations help the child to understand what is going on easier, they are black and white, water colour illustrations. These images usually follow a short paragraph at the bottom of the page
This book used rigid, rough looking drawings that use water colour to demonstrate what is happening in the story. This book has 224 pages, as this is a book for 7-11 year olds, and the pages are 12.9 x 19.8 cm. As this book is mostly aimed at older children, with more advanced reading and using less imagery, I don’t think that I will use this page size. Quentin Blake “I do a freewheeling sort of drawing that looks as though it is done on the spur of the moment. However even a single drawing needs a certain amount of preparation and planning.”http://www.quentinblake.com/index.php/about-drawing/how-i-drawBlake does a rough sketch to find how the character stands, their expressions, and how to fit the onto the page. He uses the rough copy, on top of a light box, covered by water colour paper and draws an improved version on the top layer, with waterproof ink, followed by using water colours to colour the image.
The Gruffalo
The Gruffalo is a children's book authored by Julia Donaldson, illustrated by Axel Scheffler, published by Macmillan children's books. It is aimed at children between the ages of 3-7, but mainly 5-7. this book doesn’t contain much text, but the text it does have tends to be in small paragraphs, using a simple serif font, and the story uses rhyming couplets to make it easier for young children. The story contains traditional lit, as the story uses a mythical being that is able to talk. This book is 32 pages long, 700 words and is 21.7 x 26.9 cm. I think this page size is ideal to give enough room for the writing and the illustrations. The illustrations used are digital images that could have possibly being a digitized drawing that was covered over in Photoshop and colourized.
The Tiger That Came To Tea
The tiger that came to tea is a book authored and illustrated by Judith Kerr and published by Harper Collins Childrens Books. It is aimed at children aged between 5 to 7 years old.
This book contains small amounts of text, that has appears in small paragraphs. This book uses a medium sized serif font, to help the child with their reading. The illustrations are large, and simple, they help show a child what is going on if they cant read.
The story itself is traditional lit, using anthropomorphism by letting the tiger act as a human would and personifying the tiger.
The book has 32 pages, and the page size is 22 x 28 cm. it uses hand drawn illustrations and no digital art.
The book has a simple layout and uses a white background to make it easier for a younger child to define and read the text. Example of small paragraphs used.
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