1. Dom Midgley
Children’s Book Research
The SelfishCrocodile
Author: Faustin Charles
Illustrator: Michael Terry
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Children’s Books
Publishing Date: 01-06-1998
Book Dimensions: 27.3 x 0.6 x
19.1 cm
# of pages : 32 (24 pages of the
story)
The illustrations take up the
whole space on every page, making it a lot more eye catching for the
young children reading it. The illustrations are in great detail, and its
looks as if they have been hand drawn and scanned in, possibly with
some extra detail and colour added in post production.
The fonts used are serif, to make it easier for the children to read
along the page. The sentences are limited to one to three sentences on
each page in the blank space of the page, so as not to distract to the
readers from the illustrations.
2. Dom Midgley
The Lion Who WantedTo Love
Author: Giles Andreae
Illustrator: David Wojtwycz
Publisher: Orchard Picturebooks
Publishing Date: 29-04-1999
Book Dimensions: 23.9 x 0.3 x 30.4 cm
# of pages: 32
The illustrations take up all the pages
in this book, leaving no white space
and making all the vibrant colours
used stand out. The illustrations look
fairly simple, clearly hand drawn.
Interestingly, each of the characters
and some of the more prominent
surroundings are outlined with a white border. This could be because the
characters were drawn separately to the background, so the white border
separates the two elements, making
the characters more contrasting and
eye catching.
The book is written in verse, with
each verse being written with the
poetic structure ABCB. Each two page
spread has one to two verses on each.
The font is subtly serif and simple, so
children reading it would be able to
learn the words quicker, and
hopefully in turn would be able to
learn to read and write quicker.
3. Dom Midgley
Is There Room On The Bus?
Author: Helen Piers
Illustrator: Hannah Giffard
Publisher: Frances Lincoln
Children's Books
Publishing Date: 06-03-1997
Book Dimensions: 21.5 x 27 x 0.6
cm
# of pages: 36 (30 pages of the
story)
The illustrations in this book
take up the majority of the pages,
with borders around and some white space around those. The text is put
in different places across the pages; sometimes its in some white space
within the borders, sometimes outside the border, and sometimes within
the illustrations themselves. The text is sarif, and fairly short and bold,
making it super easy for children to read.
The language used is very
simple, short sentences, with
only two to six sentences per
two-page spread. The book
contains a lot of alliteration,
to make the words easy to
remember for kids. “1 lonely
lion”, “2 cross cows”, it also
helps kids remember
numbers
