Book

A River, Marc Martin (Fiction):

This is a narrative based fiction book by, Marc Martin. The book is aimed at children, this is obvious through the minimal text and highly imaginative and engaging illustrations used. I really enjoyed looking through this book. I found Martins use of shape and colour to be really appealing and can see exactly how children would be captivated by this story thanks to the huge amount of eye-candy that Martin has produced. 


This is How We Do It: One day in the lives of seven kids from around the world, Matt Lamothe (Non-Fiction):

Matt Lamothe uses narrative to explore real life stories of children from different backgrounds all over the world. Enabling children an insight into the variations of lifestyles around the globe. Lamothe's illustrations are simplistic and quite enchanting which should allow for children to connect with each of the stories and hopefully generate an understanding within themselves for the different ways people live their lives. With small pieces of text, Lamothe manages to include factual information in an easily digestible way.

Where's Wally, Martin Handford (Picture):

This happens to have been one of my favourite picture books from when I was growing up. I think that it's audience is quite diverse as there are definitely a number of adults who are equally enthralled by the complex and challenging problem solving illustrations Handford produces. Each double page spread has an extremely crowded image in which the task is to find Wally. Something I really like about this book is it's game like nature. 

Professor Astro Cat's Atomic Adventure, Ben Newman (Self-Published):

Ben Newman is an illustrator whom I've been fond of for a while now. I love the simplicity and colours that he exhibits in his work. This children's books that he creates have a learning quality to them. Just like in this book, where Newman intends to give children an insight into science in a bitesize manner. This definitely has more text included than any of the other books I've reviewed so far, however, Newman manages to balance it out by ensuring the language is simplistic and informative. I was drawn to the book myself through discovering Newman as an illustrator and being inspired by his style. 

Books are definitely important in this digital age, there is a quality you get in a book that cannot be found online or on a kindle for example.