Book research

Tom Armstrong

Is there room on the bus?

Author, illustrator, publisher: The author to the book ‘Is there room on the bus’ is Helen Piers. The illustrator is Hannah Giffard. Frances Lincoln published the book in 1996.Visual style: The book is hand drawn and then painted. Certain pages have more layers of depth to them as others do. A wide range of colors have been used.Layout: The layout of the text is structured in a downwards diagonal line. The images are evenly spread throughout each page and appear with a slightly detailed background.Fonts and text per page: The font is serif and each page has one o two lines within it.Number of pages: there is approximately 31 pages.

Hairy Maclary

Author, illustrator, publisher: The author and illustrator is Lynley Dodd. The publisher is the penguin group.Visual style: The book seems to have been hand drawn and then the color added by hand. A lot of attention as been added to the amount of detail within each individual layer of the book.Layout: the layout of the book is placed with the picture on the left page and then the text placed on the right page.Fonts and text per page: there is a small amount of text on every right page. The text consists of 2-4 lines. The text is also written within a rhyme. The font is written in serif.Number of pages: There is 31 pages within the book.

I want a friend

Author, illustrator, publisher: tony Ross is the author and illustrator. The book was published by Harper Collins.Visual style: The book has been hand drawn and then proceeded to be colored in by hand or painted by hand. There is again a wide range of colors being used within each page.Layout: each page has the same, a picture at the top of the page and then a small amount of text at the bottom underneath the picture.Fonts and text per page: the font used is Sans serif. There is a very small amount of text per page. This ranges from around 1-3 lines per page. The text is bold and of a large scale.Number of pages: There is 25 pages overall within the book.