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Children's Book Illustrations as an Art Form Bibliography EDU 786

Carle, Eric. __From Head to Toe.__ China: Harper Collins Publishers, 1997. Ehlert, Lois. __Snowballs.__ New York, NY: Scholastic, Inc., 1995. Galan, Ana. __No is No Si is Yes.__ Illus. by David Chaskielberg. Buenos Aires, Argentina: Kumquat, 2005.
 * Summary: ** This story allows the reader to follow movements of many animals such as a penguin, giraffe, buffalo and monkey.
 * Dual Image Covers: ** The front cover features a gorilla and the back cover features a flamingo and a boy.
 * Art Element – Line: ** The position of the pictures allow your eye to flow from left to right, almost in an upside down U.
 * Summary: ** A big snow fall comes allowing snow people to be built, but the snow people begin to melt when the sun shines.
 * Endpapers: ** An uninterrupted flow is provided between the white polka dots of the endpapers and the snow flakes on the snow people pages.
 * Art Element – Texture: ** The illustrations come alive with Ehlert’s use of color and objects (popcorn, brushes, branches) to illustrate each snow person.
 * Summary: ** This book explains words and phrases in Spanish and English.
 * Vignettes: ** Illustrations are integrated into the pages allowing for variety and fun when reading.
 * Art Element – Color: ** A variety of color is used for the text as well as the picture. One color is used for Spanish and another color is used for English. This color technique allows for easy understanding of each word or phrase translation.

Lewis, Rose. __I Love You Like Crazy Cakes.__ Illus. by Jane Dyer. Boston, New York and London: Little Brown and Company, 2000.
 * Summary: ** A woman adopts a baby girl from China.
 * Double Page Spread: ** Two pages are used to show the grandeur of this story and the significance of every moment in this mother’s adoption of her baby daughter.
 * Art Element: Value/Hue: ** The bright colors and size of pictures demonstrate the author’s great love for her daughter.

Lionni, Leo. __Fish is Fish.__ New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1970
 * Summary: ** A minnow and a tadpole are great friends. Eventually the tadpole turns into a frog and the minnow becomes a fish. The frog left the water to go look around. The fish wanted to know more about the world, so the frog explained about birds, cows and people. The fish decided he wanted to venture out of the water only to find he couldn’t breathe on land. Luckily, his friend the frog helped him back into the water.
 * Gutters: ** The flow of the picture is not interfered with the use of gutters. The pictures seem enhanced or larger in scale with the use of gutters.
 * Art Element – Lines: ** The position of the picture on the page allow your eyes to flow from left to right, almost in a U-like way.

Martin, Rafe. __The Rough-Face Girl.__ Illus. by David Shannon. New York, NY: Scholastic Inc., 1992.
 * Summary: ** This Alqonquin Indian folktale takes place on the shores of Lake Ontario. All the women who live in the village want to marry the Invisible Being because they are told he is rich and handsome. The one who would marry him has to prove to the Invisible Being’s sister what he looked like because no one had ever seen him.
 * Dual Image Covers: ** The front cover shows a picture of the Rough Face Girl with her hands over her face. The back cover features a picture of the Invisible Being.
 * Art Element- Value/Hue: ** The subdued colors used in the illustrations bring out the earthy tones of Native American life.

Moore, Clement C. __The Night Before Christmas. __Illus. by Susan Winget. Delafield, WI: The Lang Companies, 2004.
 * Summary: ** The story tells of a family awaiting Santa’s arrival.
 * Borders: ** The borders, such as bells and holly, help emphasize the spirit of the season.
 * Art Element – Lines: ** The position of the pictures allow your eyes to flow from left to right, capturing each and every detail of the page.

Munsch, Robert. __Love You Forever.__ Illus. by Shiela McGraw. Willowdale, Ontario, Canada: Firefly Books, Ltd., 1990.
 * Summary: ** A loving story about the bond between a mother and her son. The mother rocks and sings to her son from infancy until adulthood. When the mother is too weak to do this anymore, the son rocks and sings to his mother.
 * Single Page Illustration: ** The text is on the left with the illustrations on the right. The entire page is used for the illustration which helps show the details and importance of a parent/child bond.
 * Art Element – Value/Hue: ** Warm colors are used to show the happiness and bond between mother and child, while brighter colors show the son’s happiness.

Murphy, Frank. __The Legend of the Teddy Bear.__ Illus. by Gijsbert van Frankenhuyzen. Chelsea, MI: Sleeping Bear Press, 2000. Parr, Todd. __The Feelings Book.__ New York, NY: Little, Brown and Company, 2000.
 * Summary: ** Teddy Roosevelt and his horse Manitou travel throughout America. On his travels, a group of men want to shoot a bear. Roosevelt told them to let the bear go. A cartoonist, Clifford Berryman, created a cartoon that appeared in newspapers around the country. Therefore, people’s love for Roosevelt increased and the stuffed teddy bear was born.
 * Single Image Covers: ** The back cover shows the back side of one teddy bear that is used in the story.
 * Art Element – Value/Hue: ** The background is in light colors, but the main character is painted in dark colors to make him stand out.
 * Summary: ** Todd Parr writes a book that explains different feelings people experience.
 * Typeface: ** Lettering is used to convey the simplicity of the message on each page. This lettering helps to convey a more personal message.
 * Art Element: Color: ** Todd Parr uses colors that people recognize and understand. He uses the color red to show how a person’s face gets red when he/she is mad. The bright colors correlate with the use of lettering, as well as to understand the concept of each page.

Polacco, Patricia. __I Can Hear the Sun.__ New York: Philomel The Putnam and Grosset Group, 1996.
 * Summary: ** Fondo is an orphan who finds himself at home at the park. The geese become his friends. Fondo and Stephanie Michele, the park keeper, become close friends because they realize they have something in common.
 * Copyright Page: ** The copyright is found at the end of the book instead of at the beginning.
 * Art Element – Line: ** The position of the picture on the left page allows your eye to flow from the left side to the right side. It seems to allow circular eye flow.

Warnes, Tim. __Mommy Mine.__ Illus. by Jane Chapman. New York, NY: Scholastic Inc., 2006. Wells, Rosemary. __EMILY’S First 100 Days of School__. New York, NY: Scholastic Inc., 2000.
 * Summary: ** This is a story about animal moms and their children. The attributes of the animals are woven into the book such as mice go pitter patter and frogs croak.
 * Text Layout: ** The use of carefully chosen text and the position of text help set the tone for each page. For example, on the page with elephants, the text is written bolder and larger to show the enormity of the elephant.
 * Art Element – Shape: ** The position of each illustration correlates with that particular animal. For example, the author uses shape to emphasize each animal’s uniqueness, such as long, tall and lean illustrations that correspond to the size of the giraffe.
 * Summary: ** This book explains the numbers 1 – 100 in a fun and exciting way. For example, to learn the number 9, Wells teaches the nine planets.
 * Panels: ** The pictures are broken into panels which allow each number to have its own text and illustration. This gives each number equal importance and allows the reader to focus on one number at a time.
 * Art Element – Color: ** The pictures are very colorful. Each panel has a main color that is used in the background and the illustration uses various other colors. For example, in the number 10, the background is green and the illustration is blue, yellow and brown. Each number is given its own unique color(s) to make it stand out.

Wood, Audrey. __The Bunyans.__ Illus. by David Shannon. New York: The Blue Sky Press, 1996. Yolen, Jane. __How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight?__ Illus. by Mark Teague. New York, NY: Scholastic, The Blue Sky Press, 2007.
 * Summary: ** Audrey Wood writes about natural wonders of the world such as Niagara Falls, Mt. Rainier and Old Faithful. The story is told through Paul Bunyan with his family as the main characters. Their adventures begin at Niagara Falls.
 * Flaps: ** There is additional information located on the flaps that displays an outline of the United States, and lists the natural wonders and their locations.
 * Art Element- Texture: ** The texture makes the pictures come alive. On a page where Old Faithful’s geyser is erupting, David Shannon’s use of background colored illustrations make the eruption look realistic.
 * Summary: ** When it is time for a dinosaur to go to bed, the dinosaur doesn’t listen in the first part of the book. By the end of the book the dinosaur learns how to go to bed.
 * Wrap Around Cover: ** The picture begins on the front cover and wraps around to the back. It helps to emphasize the magnitude of dinosaurs.
 * Art Element– Texture: ** The use of texture makes the pictures come alive. The texture helps show the length of a dinosaur’s tail and the size of its teeth and feet.

Ziefert, Harriet. __Colors.__ Illus. by Emily Bolam. Maplewood, N.J.: Blue Apple Books, 2007.
 * Summary: ** This book helps explain the importance of colors and how two colors can create a new one. All the colors of the rainbow are represented in the book.
 * Shape of Books: ** The top of the book is shaped like a donkey’s ears as the donkey is the main character of the story.
 * Art Element – Color: ** Each color named in this book is used as the background color for its typed text. For example, for the color red, the font is black, but the word has a red background.