Picture Story Books
I came across three picture story books..
-Twilight Comes Twice by Ralph Fletcher illustrated by Kate Kiesler
-Wemberly Worried by Kevin Henkes
- The Pencil by Alan Ahlberg and Bruce Ingman
In my opinion, all three of my choices qualify as picture story book. They have the fusion of text and illustration made into a creative product. However, I do think the illustrations from Twilight Comes Twice could not simply tell the story just by looking at the pictures like the other two, but the illustrations do correlate with the story and strike your inner creativity and imagination.
Twilight Comes Twice is about the two times in the day that the sun rises and the sun sets (twilight). It goes on to describe what types of things go on during those parts of the day. The illustrations are beautiful and realistically depict how the sky and other parts of nature look during different times of the day.
Wemberly Worried is a sweet book about a girl (well she's really a mouse) named Wemberly who literally worries about every little thing (worries she'll go down the drain like the water in her bathtub). She begins to worry about starting her first day of school until she meets a new friend, and slowly but surely all her insignificant worries go away. The text and the pictures combine perfectly to tell the story. The illustrations show the worry on her face and the many things she's worried about perfectly.
The Pencil is a really cute book about a lonely pencil who decides to draw things so that he won't be. He eventually ends up drawing people and things and names them. Next, he draws a paintbrush to add color to the people and things. This backfires on him because the people and things start to complain that things were too big, or too ugly, or too just "not them". So then he draws an eraser and that REALLY backfires on him, and so of course the eraser was mean and tried to erase everyone and everything including pencil. The illustrations in this book alone could tell the story without words. The addition of the pictures to the text enhanced the story, making the illustrations and text together a perfect recipe.
-Twilight Comes Twice by Ralph Fletcher illustrated by Kate Kiesler
-Wemberly Worried by Kevin Henkes
- The Pencil by Alan Ahlberg and Bruce Ingman
In my opinion, all three of my choices qualify as picture story book. They have the fusion of text and illustration made into a creative product. However, I do think the illustrations from Twilight Comes Twice could not simply tell the story just by looking at the pictures like the other two, but the illustrations do correlate with the story and strike your inner creativity and imagination.
Twilight Comes Twice is about the two times in the day that the sun rises and the sun sets (twilight). It goes on to describe what types of things go on during those parts of the day. The illustrations are beautiful and realistically depict how the sky and other parts of nature look during different times of the day.
Wemberly Worried is a sweet book about a girl (well she's really a mouse) named Wemberly who literally worries about every little thing (worries she'll go down the drain like the water in her bathtub). She begins to worry about starting her first day of school until she meets a new friend, and slowly but surely all her insignificant worries go away. The text and the pictures combine perfectly to tell the story. The illustrations show the worry on her face and the many things she's worried about perfectly.
The Pencil is a really cute book about a lonely pencil who decides to draw things so that he won't be. He eventually ends up drawing people and things and names them. Next, he draws a paintbrush to add color to the people and things. This backfires on him because the people and things start to complain that things were too big, or too ugly, or too just "not them". So then he draws an eraser and that REALLY backfires on him, and so of course the eraser was mean and tried to erase everyone and everything including pencil. The illustrations in this book alone could tell the story without words. The addition of the pictures to the text enhanced the story, making the illustrations and text together a perfect recipe.
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