Its Mine!

Rod Campbell, Campbell Blackie Books.

Bright and Busy, with basic but effective textures throughout the book. Every image is hand drawn in a simplistic cartoon style which makes each animal look cute and friendly.

There are only a couple of short sentences per page, the left font being larger than that on the right.

There are a total of 22 pages using a serif font for ease of reading.

Text is over white spaces on the left side and is always answering the question of what the creature was.

The text on the right is mostly over the image containing the statement of what they can see and asking who it is.

Is there room on the bus?

Helen Piers, Hannah Giffard, Frances Lincoln books,

The images are varied between quiet and busy as the bus is very busy with all of the animals which end up on it, but is quiet around it with larger amount of negative space. It is quite textured with a more cartoony style compared to ‘It’s Mine!’ but is still hand drawn but much more stylised.

The book contains 36 Pages, with almost full pages of illustrations and a small amount of sentences written in a serif font.

The majority of the images are bordered by a coloured line, with the text written around the outside of the line, but others have the images with negative space left intentionally for the text to be fitted in.

The Lion Who Wanted To Love

Giles Andreae, David Wojtwycz, Orchard Picturebooks

The colours are quite bright, and some pages are not very busy but others are framed and have a lot going on, the style is hand drawn and stylised with more shading on the animals instead of typical textures, but also each animal is outlines with a small white line to make them stand out more. The animals are also quite cartoony which makes them very cute and not at all scary.

There are 32 pages and the image stretches over the double page and all the text is written in a serif font and over plain coloured areas within the book. This book compared to the others has longer/more sentences.