ILLUSTRATED BOOKS

FORM #3: Illustrated Books

What About it?

As children develop, books made for them have illustrations that convey part of the message, but the text is needed for the complete story line (picture storybooks). As they begin to read independently, their books have illustrations that add to the story, but there are fewer of them, and the text itself could stand alone. These books are called illustrated books. Though the illustrations depict what is happening in the story, they do not provide new information. The text is clearly more important than the illustrations.

Illustrated vs. Picture Books

Illustrated and picture books are ofte mixed together as they both have pictures in them. However, there is a major deiference between the two. In pictures books, images generally fill up the whole page and is the primary focus of the book. Illustrated books however is a mixture of texts and images that occupies one page to stimulate imaginatio but not take away the focus from the words. Illustrated books typically have images i evry two pages or so and is generally thicker in pages than in picture books.

Example # 1: Cinderella

This brilliant edition of a timeless story is sure to become the favorite of a generation. Readers young and old will be enchanted by the vision and mastery of Kinuko Y. Craft’s luminous paintings, inspired by the lavish artwork of late seventeenth-century France and embellished with extraordinary borders and ornamentation. Rich with radiant color and astonishing detail, here is a dream come true for anyone who has ever believed in living happily ever after. 

Example # 2: The Princess and the Pea

In this rendition a tiger is proven to be a princess. 

Example # 3: The Little Prince

Moral allegory and spiritual autobiography, The Little Prince is the most translated book in the French language. With a timeless charm it tells the story of a little boy who leaves the safety of his own tiny planet to travel the universe, learning the vagaries of adult behaviour through a series of extraordinary encounters. His personal odyssey culminates in a voyage to Earth and further adventures.