This document summarizes and compares the visual styles, layouts, fonts, and other details of three popular children's books: The Three Little Pigs, The Hungry Caterpillar, and Curious George. All three books use bright colors, hand drawn illustrations, and serif fonts. The Three Little Pigs has large illustrations covering most pages with short text passages. The Hungry Caterpillar uses illustrations across two pages to tell the story. Curious George uses a simple white background and varies the size of illustrations on the pages.

1. Children Books Research
1) The Three Little Pigs
Visual Style- Bright colors, textured, cartoon, Hand drawn
Layout of text and images- Images are at a large scale that
cover most of the page, text is presented always at the top of
the pages. The amount of the writing that is consisting in the
book is between single lines to an entire paragraph. Images
cover at least ¾ of a page, however there some pages which
contain a large scale of another images with no text at all
which designers use to continue a follow of a story and
make it link to the text from the other pages.
Fonts and text per page- Font is presented in a serif, text is
a large scale, text per page is either a single line of words or
mostly consist of a paragraph as the author goes into the
story in a lot of detail.
Author- Patricia Seibert
Publish- “Brighter Child” Book Company
Illustrated- Horacio Elena
No. Pages and page size- 32 pages, 20.3cm high and 20.3cm wide
2) The Hungry Caterpillar
Visual Style- The designer for this book follows a different style to other
children’s book illustration, they kept to the same design feature. The book is a
pop out featured book which can interact with the viewer within the story. The
images are all hand drawn again and are illustrated so that it could be easy for be
drawn by a child. The designer also usages a texture technique to make it stand
out.
Layout of text and images- In this book they use both pages on each turn to tell
all content. The text is presented above both pages and the images are always
covering most of the rest of the pages. In some pages when
the author is telling us what sort of food products that the
caterpillar is eating, the text is a lined up with the image. For
example, “One piece of chocolate cake” this is above the
large scale illustration of the chocolate cake.
Fonts and text per page- They also use of serif for the style
of fonts for this story, however again they did not mention
the type of font that they used. However, the text presented
on the top of all of the pages are all in relation to the main
character of the story. Every turn of the page the caterpillars
eats more and more food products, at first he eats stuff but he is tiny and the
then the text is also tiny, the more and more the caterpillar eats the larger the
scale of text.
Author- Eric Carle
Publish-Puffin; New Ed edition (28 Nov. 2002)
No. Pages and page size- 28 pages and 20.7 x 0.3 x 5.6 cm

2. 3) Curious George
Visual Style- This designer uses hand drawn to scale out the images, they use a
simple plain white background so that it is easier to see from the viewer’s point
of view. They use a bright color in all images and use different use of colors for
tone and shading making the look of the illustrations look more alive than just a
simple image of the paper.
Layout of text and images- There is always a picture on
every turn of the page, some are a large scale in which
covers most of the entire page, sometimes used to
describing a setting, character or content in general,
However the artist has some pages where the images is
split into two to three smaller images, in which are all
related to each other and the text.
Fonts and text per page- I do not know the exact font that
the publisher used for ‘Curious George’, but if I was
comparing the font to a font that we used in office applications then it is similar to
Times New Roman as it has a very similar serif. The text is formed in a similar layout
to a poem, with a large scale of the font making it easier for the reader for all ages.
Author- H.A. Rey and Margret Rey in March 15th 1973
Publisher- Houghton Mifflin No. Pages and page size- 64 pages and the
page size of this child’s book is 0.2 x 8.2 x 10.2 inches