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Children’s Book Illustrations As An Art Form Bibliography Edu: 786

__ Bibliography __
Allen, Susan and Lindaman, Jane. **__Read Anything Good Lately?__** Illus. By Vicky Enright. Brookfield, CN: Milbrook Press, 2003. Briggs, Raymond. **__The Snowman__**. New York, NY: Random House, 1978 Brown, Calef. **__Polka-Bats and Octopus Slacks__**. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1998. Bunting, Eve. **__My Special Day at Third Street School__**. Honesdale, PA: Boyds Mills Press, 2004. Burleigh, Robert. **__Homerun__**. Illus. By Mike Wimmer. New York, NY: Scholastic Books, 1998. Cates, Karin. **__The Secret Remedy Book__**. Illus. by Wendy Anderson Halperin. New York, NY: Orchard Books, 2003. Child, Lauren. **__Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Book?__** New York, NY: Hyperion Books for Children, 2002. Luthardt, Kevin. **__Peep!__** Atlanta, GA: Peachtree Publishers, 2003 MacDonald, Suse. **__Here a Chick, Where a Chick?__** New York, NY: Scholastic Books, 2004 Rosenthal, Amy Krouse and Lichtenheld, Tom. **__The OK Book__**. New York, NY: HarperCollins Children’s Books, 2007. Rylant, Cynthia. **__An Angel for Solomon Singer__**. Illus. By Peter Catalanotto. New York, NY: Orchard Books, 1992. Suess, Dr. **__Oh, The Places You’ll Go! __**New York, NY: Random House, 1990 Thayer, Ernest L. **__Casey at the Bat__**. Illus. by C.F.Payne. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2003. Van Allsburg, Chris. **__The Polar Express__**. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1985. Van Allsburg, Chris. **__Zathura__**. New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin: 2002.
 * __ Summary __**** : ** This alphabet book asks the question, “Read Anything Good Lately?” Each page names one type of book and place to read it. Both begin with the same letter. For example: a **b**iography in **b**ed.
 * __ Vignettes __** : Small drawings in “thinking balloons” over the characters’ heads help to illustrate what the characters are reading.
 * __ Art Element __**__ – **Color** __** : ** Vivid colors used throughout the book create a joyful feel.
 * __ Summary __** : A young boy builds a snowman. The snowman comes to life and the boy invites him into his home. The snowman then takes the boy on a flight around the world. When the boy goes to visit the snowman the next morning he discovers the snowman has melted.
 * __ Panels __** : Panels throughout the first part of the book highlight the actions the boy takes to build the snowman and the adventures they have at home.
 * __ Art Element – Value/Hue __** : The delicate colored pencil illustrations suggest gentleness and innocence.
 * __ Summary __**** : ** Fourteen rhyming stories on a variety of fantastical people and animals.
 * __ Flaps __** : The back flap includes a picture of the author depicted as a blue elephant and drawn in the style of the characters in the stories.
 * __ Art Element – Shape __** : The characters, drawn with exaggerated features in profile only, create a modern art feel.
 * __ Summary __**__ : __ Author Amanda Drake visits Third Street School to speak about being an author. During a question and answer session, a student suggests that she writes a book about her visit to the school. At the end of the story the reader discovers she has just read the book Amanda Drake wrote.
 * __ Dual Image Cover __**** : ** An illustration of Amanda Drake reveals that she rode her bike to Third Street School.
 * __ Art Element – Color __** : A multitude of bright colors creates a feeling of busyness and energy in the classroom.
 * __ Summary __** : The story of how Babe Ruth, through his powerful hitting and homeruns, changed the game of baseball. Each page of text includes a small baseball card with facts and statistics about Babe Ruth’s baseball career.
 * __ Single-Image Covers __** : The front cover illustration is an oil painting of Babe Ruth. The back cover carries over the same tan color from the front and has a small photograph of Babe Ruth.
 * __ Art Element __**__ – **Value** __ : Oil paintings done so realistically they almost appear to be photographs.
 * __ Summary __** : Lolly visits her Auntie Zep’s house and comes down with a bad case of homesickness. Aunties Zep pulls out the Secret Remedy book to share with Lolly. As Lolly performs the tasks in the book she forgets about being homesick.
 * Borders: ** The borders surrounding the pictures highlight parts of the story. For example, when Auntie Zep opens an old trunk to get the book, the border depicts how the trunk was brought over by an immigrant family as they sailed to America.
 * __ Art Element – Shape __**** : ** Many of the illustrations are drawn in panels with curved tops giving the feeling that the picture will break off and float away across the top of the page.
 * __ Summary __** : Herb falls asleep with a book of fairy tales and wakes up to find that he has accidentally fallen into the book. As Herb passes through several of the tales, he discovers that the doodling and cutting he had done in the book led to the disappearance of Prince Charming. After Herb escapes from the book he works to erase the doodles from the pages and glues Prince Charming back to his rightful place in the book.
 * __ Text Layout __** : Text is written in swirls, falling off the page, backwards, and upside down to match Herb’s energetic and chaotic travels through the story.
 * __ Art Element - Texture __** : Cut paper collages help to illustrate the story. Cut-outs of photographs, colored illustrations, and pen and ink drawings create layers of texture.
 * __ Summary __**** : ** A young boy discovers an egg that hatches into a duckling. The duckling follows the boy home and lives with him until he turns into a duck. The boy releases the duck into a pond. As he walks home he hears a kitten mewing. The kitten follows the boy home.
 * __ Single Page Illustration __**** : ** Although each page is a single illustration, the illustrations bleed off the page making it seem as though one scene blends into the next.
 * __ Art Element – Shape __** : The dominance of circular shapes creates a soft and gentle feel to the story.
 * __ Summary __**** : ** While searching the barn for their chicks, the hens discover other farm animals hiding behind flaps.
 * __ Typeface __**** : ** The words “Here a chick, Where a chick?” are repeated on each page of the book. Each letter in the sentence is a different color.
 * __ Art Element – Color __** : The brightness of the lettering is offset by the earthy colors of the barn scenes making the phrase “Here a chick, where a chick?” seem to jump off the page.
 * __ Summary __**** : ** The child in the story describes all the things he is “ok” at doing. At the end he declares that one day he will grow up to be really excellent at something,
 * __ Copyright Page __**** : ** Found on the last page of the book, the copyright page includes the sentence “Or is this just the beginning?”
 * __ Art Element – Line __**** : ** Simple black line drawings of a stick figure make it appear that the story has been illustrated by a child.
 * __ Summary __**** : ** Solomon Singer lives alone in New York City. He dreams of the places and things he once had. One night he enters the Westway Café where he is waited on by a man name Angel. Solomon finds comfort at the café and visits nightly. Slowly he begins to realize that there is the same beauty in the city as there was in his boyhood home.
 * __ Double-Page Spread __** : The illustrations spread across both pages capture the enormity of the city as well as the vast fields of Solomon’s boyhood home.
 * __ Art Element – Hue __** : The muted watercolor pictures emphasize the sad and lonely feelings of Solomon Singer. Splashes of red are used for Angel’s vest, possibly to symbolize the joy Angel brings to Solomon.
 * __ Summary __**** : ** Advice written in rhyme for how to proceed through the tough parts of life including fear, loneliness, confusion, and being responsible for your actions.
 * __ Wraparound Cover __**** : ** A circular design depicting a mountain the character has just climbed wraps from the front cover to the back cover.
 * __ Art Element – Line __** : The diagonal lines across the pages create a feeling of excitement and energy.
 * __ Summary __**__ : __ Famous poem about the day Casey struck out, causing Mudville to lose the big baseball game.
 * __ Endpapers __**** : ** Close-up of the green bleacher seats found at the ball park
 * __ Art Element – Texture __** : The strokes in the colored pencil drawings lend an old-fashioned feel to the pictures.
 * __ Summary __**__ : __ A young boy takes a ride on a magical train called The Polar Express. The train takes him to the North Pole where Santa gives him a silver bell as the first gift of Christmas. The boy discovers that only those who believe in Santa can hear the jingle of the bell.
 * __ Shape of Books __** : The long, horizontal shape of the book works well to emphasize the length of the Polar Express train and length of Santa’s sleigh and reindeer
 * __ Art Element – Line __** : While the horizontal shape of the book allows Van Allsburg to depict the train and sleigh, the vertical lines within the pictures create a feeling of energy.
 * __ Summary __** : Two brothers find a magical board game called Zathura. As they play the game, they are transported to outer space where they must battle meteor showers, loss of gravity, black holes, and aliens.
 * __ Gutters __**** : ** Proper use of gutters does not interfere with the double-page spread illustrations.
 * __ Art Element – Texture __** : The heavy, rough paper and black and white illustrations give the sense of reading a comic book story.