Day: February 24, 2016

Some might question why you would want to bother creating books for children and what the importance of them is…

• The first 7 years of a child’s life are the most important in terms of language development
• Children’s books often teach children how to deal with real life problems by taming them down
• The books can be a source of knowledge
• They can heighten a child’s creative side
• They introduce life and death to children
• They teach children new vocabulary and syntax
• They introduce children to onomatopoeia, alliteration and other language
• Cognitive development
• Developing emotionally
• Help motor skills

Different ideas and approaches I have thought of:

• A story about a giraffe
• A story under the sea
• A collage
• Attempt illustrations myself?
• Attempt to make illustrations on Illustrator?
•  Need to decide on an issue to tackle

 

 

 

I am quite excited to take on this next brief of designing a children’s book. I studied child language acquisition for my English A level where we created a book and am looking at becoming a primary school teacher so I feel this brief is quite relevant for me. I also enjoy looking at beautifully illustrated (or humorous) children’s books.

Some of my favourite children’s books are:

I have discovered from my favourites that I appreciate the illustrated designs more.

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Here are some children’s books that I found on Pinterest that I like the look of:

 

 

 

I like the simplistic design of the first and third books the most. I think I will want my designs to be relatively simple and just using a good colour scheme like these too. I feel like you could create a book like the ‘Little Owl Lost’ using a collage which might look quite nice. I am not sure if my drawing abilities are up to scratch to create a book that is as beautiful as ‘The Great Paper Caper’.

 

 

 

via GIPHY