UNIT 10: Picture book primer & research

For this project, I'll be making a children's picture book.
I've started my research by looking at picture books that I find interesting to get inspiration for my own work.
I looked at 'The stinky cheese man and other fairly stupid tales'. This book includes classic fairy tales but with stupid stories. I noticed the use of text and the play on words. I really like that the book keeps the reader interested by using these techniques as oppose to just writing the stories in one font and size.

Some more classics I remembered were books like The Gruffalo, We're going on a bear hunt and The Cat in the Hat which were some of my favourites growing up. 

I looked for patterns in these books to try to figure out ways to create my own. I noticed that most of these books include a character (usually an animal or inspired by an animal). The use of different sized text is also important. Big writing in capital letters usually implies shouting or speaking loudly. Also bright colour's are very eye catching to keep young children interested in these books.

Although, these are fairly straight forward to understand and the language is simple, they usually include an important moral which is educational to the child.