This document summarizes information about three children's books: Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak, I Want a Friend by Tony Ross, and We're Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen. For each book, it provides the author, illustrator, publisher, a brief description of the visual style and layout, and the number of pages and dimensions. The styles include hand drawn images, placement of text and images, use of color, and font sizes. All three books have between 32-40 pages and square or rectangular page dimensions.

1. Children's book research
Richard Acaster.

2. Where the wild things are
• Author: Maurice Sendak
• Illustrator: Maurice Sendak
• Publisher: Random house children's books.
• The visual style of the book is scruffy hand drawn, some of the images are quite
busy but the first few pictures of the book are quite quiet and there is a good
transition over a few pages between the images being quiet and busy. The layout
of the pages inside the book are that the writing/text is on the left hand side of
the book on white and the images are on the right page of the book, the text of
the book is both serif and san-serif as the first letter at the start of each sentence
is serif and the rest are sans-serif.
• There are 40 pages in the book and the pages size is quite square.

4. I Want A Friend
• Author: Tony Ross
• Illustrator: Tony Ross
• Publisher: Harper Collins children's books
The visual style of the book is hand drawn and quite scruffy, both the text and the
images are separate from each other as on each page the text is based below the
images which are both on a white page. The people in the images show some human
like qualities but some features and expressions of the face are exaggerated such as
the big eyes and long noses stand out quite a bit.
The font used in the book is serif and quite large to make it easy to read and each
page as around 2-3 sentences, the book has 32 pages and the dimensions of the
book/books pages are 22 x 0.4 x 26.3

6. We’re going on a bear hunt
• Author – Michael Rosen
• Illustrator – Helen Oxenbury
• Publisher – Walker Books LTD
• The visual style of the book is hand drawn and seems to look a little scruffy,
because of this it makes the pages look quite busy as there seems to be a lot
included in the images. Some of the pages are in black and white and some are in
colour this might add effect to the pages when they have colour and they will also
stand out from the black and white pages. The layout of the pages in the book are
that the text is part of the pages alongside the images as on some pages the text is
at the top of the page, on other pages the text is at the top and bottom of the
page and on a few pages the text is in the center in a box. The text is the same size
and shape on every page as it stands out and would make it easier for young
children to read as that is whom the book is targeted at.
• There are 40 pages within the book and the dimensions of the book/books pages
are: 27.2 x 0.5 x 24.1 cm and is written in English.