This document summarizes and compares two children's books: "Zigby Camps Out" uses bold colors and thick black outlines for illustrations covering full pages. The font is simple and guides the eye along the text. Text size increases for shouts. "Mr Tiger Goes Wild" uses dull colors except for the bright orange tiger. Simple shapes are used with added details. The illustrations were created digitally combining various media. The font aids reading. It has 48 pages and was published in 2013 in the US and UK.

1. Children’s Book Research
Jamie Ellis

2. “Zigby Camps Out” by Brian Paterson
This book is very vibrant and uses bold, simple shapes and blocks of colour for the
main images. The illustrator has used a thick black outline around the majority
of the characters and objects within the story, but has not included much
detail such as shading, tones or texture. However, to make the images more
interesting he has used patterns, such as spots and stripes on characters
clothing and objects. The images cover the whole of the page through the
majority of the book, apart from two pages where small scenarios are shown
in four individual images.
The illustrations, also made by the author Brian Paterson, seem to have been
drawn digitally either through a form of computer software or on a graphics
tablet. The font used is simplistic and is written in black. The author has used a
font which uses serif’s, to guide the eye along with the writing, making it
easier to read. Throughout the book the size of the font is consistent, and is
placed around the illustrations with the exception of a noise or a character in
the book shouting something. When this happens, the text is made much
more bold, and the font size is increased with some text put into capital
letters.
There is a total of 32 pages in this book, which has been produced as a paperback
with the dimensions of 25.8 x 22.8 x 0.4 cm Brian Paterson is both the author
and illustrator of this book, although he is best known for his work with
Foxwood Tales. Zigby Camps Out was published by the very well known
company of Harper Collins.

3. “Mr Tiger Goes Wild” by Peter Brown
Mr Tiger Goes Wild has been created using very dull colours, with
the exception of the main character, Mr Tiger who is bright
orange. This is to put the attention on the character, as well as
to project the storyline about having a dull and boring life. Mr
Tiger has been made orange to show that he is different from
the other animals, however a tiger is naturally orange. Although
dull, the colours are still bold. Simple shapes have been used to
create the main objects. However more detail has been used
within them.
The illustrator and author, Peter Brown, used a range of media to
create the illustrations in this book including India Ink,
watercolour paint, gouache and pencil and paper to begin with
before then digitally composing and colouring the images. The
images are quite simple, with detail added to the characters.
The font was in Rockwell, and serif’s have been used on the
letters to aid reading.
The book contains 48 pages, and has dimensions of 25.4 x 0.7 x 25.5
cm. Mr Tiger Goes Wild was first published in the USA in 2013
by Little, Brown and Company, and first published in the UK in
2013 by Macmillan Children’s care books.