3 Children's Stories

By Joe Cole

War GameThe story is of a young boy and his friends going off to fight in ww1 in the trenches. The story shows the 1914 spontaneous Christmas truce and the following events on the Western Front. The story is very emotive the illustration is done in both a very bright and dark muted style to contrast happiness with great sadness, it is a hand painted illustration that gives a very atmospheric feel to the story. This book was written and illustrated by Michael Foreman and the book is 76 pages long and came out on 7th October 1993 and was published through pavilion books. As it is a children's book the majority of the pages are taken up by the illustrations with the text only taking up a small part of the page (see below pages from the book).

Dark and Light illustrations to show mood

The Very Hungry CaterpillarThe Very Hungry Caterpillar is a story about a tiny but very hungry caterpillar eating many different things then eventually turning into a butterfly. It is illustrated in a very colorful collage style making everything look very bright. The text to image ratio is low as this is a ‘first book’ for many children, the book has a hole on may pages so that young children can put their fingers through and interact with the story and it also involves counting and the days of the week.The author and illustrator of this book is Eric Carle and was originally published June 3 1969 by the World Publishing Company it has 28 pages and the book size is 21cm tall.

Interactive holes in pages

Small amounts of text

The Little PrinceThe Little Prince is the story of a crashed pilot in the desert meets a small prince from a crashed meteor and its about how the little prince sees our World. It is illustrated in a water color style and was painted by hand because it was 1943 and that would be the only way to have produced it . The author and illustrator of the book was is Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and was published on 6th April 1943 by Harcourt. The book has 112 pages and is classed as a Novella this means its longer than a short story but not as long as a novel so contains quite a lot of text that is interspersed with pictures.

Text & imagesCombined on The page

Soft water colour style