Book research

1. Bookresearch
‘WhereThere’sABear,There’sTrouble!’
Textby Michael Catchpool
IllustrationsbyVanessaCabban
PublishedbyLittle TigersPress
The visual style of this bookis very bright throughout all the pages, and
has very busy layout, as there is hardly any empty spaces on the pages.
The style of he images are that they are more like hand drawings and
simplistic with bright colours throughout. Eachpage of the bookis covered
in the drawings, whichrepresent the text, with the text running on top of the drawings,
generally at the top or bottom of the page however some of the text is across the page
when there are noises being made. The font of the text is in serif and has only got one or
twosentences per page with 32 pages. It has a landscape view.
‘WhereTheWildThingsAre’
Textby MauriceSendak
IllustrationsbyMauriceSendak
First publishedin1963 byRedFox
The visual style is fairly simple, howeverhas dark shading on top,
and has quite muted colours they aren’t very bright and have a
cartoon like style. The layout of the image and text is fairly split as
for every image there is a blackpage next to it with a small amount
of text whichmakes it easier to read for younger children, also the
font in this bookis in a serif font throughout and has 48 pages. Also the layout of this
book is landscape but the images don’t coverthe entire page until the end of the book.
The colours in the drawings are fairly dark with some pops of the bright coloursrather
than it all in bright colours.
‘TheSelfishGiant’
Textby Oscar Wilde
IllustrationsbyMichael ForemanandFreireWright
PublishedbyPuffinBooks
The visual style is quite detailed in the drawings and have quite bright
colours in the drawings, as well as this the layoutis fairly simple as
there is a blank page with only text and one page withonly image on
it. As oppose to the other books there is a quite a lot more text on
each page rather than only a sentence of two,it also has 32 pages.
Also the font of the text is a serif font, the styles of the images are
quite pastel shades of colour rather than a very bright colourscheme.
‘TheVeryHungryCaterpillar’
Textby EricCarle
IllustrationsbyEricCarle
PublishedbyPuffinBooks
The Very Hungry Caterpillar has a cartoonlike visual style, with
very simple illustrations but bright coloursused throughout. The
text is fitted around the illustrations in quite small chunks, the
font of this text is in serif font.In this book there are a lot of
different textures used within the illustrations, as different parts
of the drawings are in slightly different shades and textures that give a more scrapbook
lookto the book,it is also 28 pages long.
TheGruffalo

2. Textby JuliaDonaldson
IllustrationsbyAxel Scheffler
PublishedbyPanMacmillan,2016
The book is 32 pages long, and also has a simple visual style with a hand
drawn look to the illustrations as opposed to a more comic bookor highly
edited style of illustrations. The text in this book is placed around and
among the illustrations rather than on separate pages, also the fontof the
text is in a serif font. The illustrations of the book are fairly bright, as the
backgrounds and greenery in the backgrounds are quite bright greens
used.
Peace at Last
Textby Jill Murphy
IllustrationsbyJill Murphy
PublishedbyPanMacmillan
Peace at Last is a 36 page book,and has very hand drawn look to the
illustrations as the drawings look fairly realistic, as well as this the colours
used in the illustrations are quite bright and help the focusof the drawings
stand out from the backgrounds. The text is placed around the images so it
doesn’t distract from the drawings and has in a serif font. Some of the
pages have bit of a darker colourscheme to give the lookof night time.