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The Eleventh Hour Written and Illustrated by Graeme Base This book is mystery solving book. However, you'd have to solve the mystery your self. The clues are in the pictures, but they are quite hard to see. After knowing who did it, you'd have to crack the codes at the end to find out how it was done. Young children (4 and under) probably wouldn't like this book. It's more for older little children, when they can understand what's going on. The pictures are really the most important bit in this book, because that's where the clues are. 89 words Koala Lou Written by Mem Fox - Illustrated by Pamela Lofts The setting of this book is in the aussie bush, with bush animals. Most of the right hand pages only had pictures. These pictures are boxed with some bits of it sticking out, giving a sense of nature, that the pictures are not in a small limited area. Some boxes are bigger than the others; those are when Koala Lou's feeling happy or excited. At the last page out of the 32 pages, there isn't any writing, the box is small to indicate the end. How the pictures are laid out gives a sense of feeling. 96 words Hairy Maclary, from Donaldson's Dairy Written and illustrated by Lynley Dodd The text in this book rhymes, makes it fun to read. The names of the animals rhyme with their descriptions. It is very descriptive and the pictures are really like their descriptions. So when you see an animal, you would know which one it is. Every time there's a dog's name, it's always followed with their description - with the exact same words as before, they're repeated. At the end the text is short: 'straight back home to bed.', the picture on that last page is small - of Hairy in his basket, it shows that the story is over. 100 words Schnitzel von Krumm, Dogs Never Climb Trees Written and illustrated by Lynley Dodd The story rhymes. The bit saying that 'dogs never climb trees' is repeated several times, it's good for young children. The text tells you what Schnitzel does, but the picture shows him doing it - how he does those things he does. Some things in the pictures aren't described in the text, like the other animals. When it gets to where Schnitzel climbs a tree, the sentence isn't finished until he's actually on the tree. At the last page, the last sentence finishes, it shows Schnitzel on the tree, and gives you a satisfied feeling. 95 words Tough Boris Written by Mem Fox - Illustrated by Kathryn Brown Most of the pictures take up the whole pages, leaving a little bit of space for the writings. It gives you a sense of the wide open sea. When the setting is in the rooms in the ship, the pictures don't take up the whole page, they're boxed, to give a sense that it's in a limited space. The pictures show how pirates are. At the end, the author talks about Boris's parrot, which wasn't included in the text before, but was included in the pictures. So you have to read the story and 'read' the pictures as well. 99 words Help! I'm, Cracking Up Written and illustrated by Tedd Arnold The text in this book rhymes. The story is really funny, it shows how little might think of the phrases we use everyday. It has cartoony figures with big round eyes and long huge faces. Makes the book even funnier. The layout varies - it makes it not boring. The pictures are really important, because it shows what the kid is imagining. These imaginations are in huge blobby thingies, like how people use to show people thinking or dreaming. 79 words The Lost Thing Written and illustrated by Shaun Tan Weird, mysterious, confusing. The book has lots of writings, not part of the actual text, just some random writings from newspapers or books as background. These writings are in yellowish brown and on yellow paper, they're small, so it doesn't distract you from the story. The actual texts are much bigger; they're boxed, to separate them from the background. The actual drawings are also boxed and are in colour, to separate them from other random drawings on the background. Weird but interesting things can be found in them. 88 words Dog In, Cat Out Written by Gillian Rubenstein, Illustrated by Ann James The text in this book is really simple. There are only four words used in it: dog, cat, in, and out. So when you read this book and not see the pictures, it would be extremely boring. The pictures tell you the story. The pictures also show what the family does. The story is in a time line, there's a clock that shows the time on each page. On every page, the time is different, it gets later and later. Good for young children to learn about time. 88 words Guess What? Written by Mem Fox, Illustrated by Vivienne Goodman Mem Fox tells you this story by asking questions about witches and almost all the answers are 'YES'. This makes the readers think that all the answers would be 'YES'. But in the end, there's a 'NOT', and that made the book interesting. It has a message for young children not to be afraid of witches. The texts describe what the witch is like, but the pictures make the image clearer. The pictures are in detail, you can find lots of interesting but weird things in the pictures. 88 words Last Modified 9/26/05 8:01 AM |