Wolves

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The mixed media approach and scrapbook style layout of the illustrations makes it highly stylised, and I worry a little that the layout of the book is aimed at an older audience than the story, which itself contains some subtle and sly humour.

Images Donate icon An illustration of a heart shape Donate Ellipses icon An illustration of text ellipses. This book, playful and witty on the surface, tells the story of a rabbit reading a book about wolves. Very clever if somewhat horrific art at the end (the torn and dampened end cover pages are a bit too violent for my taste). I left school when I was 16 and I think because my parents are very artistic, I had always been expected to go on to art college. With that being said, every illustrations covers both pages, so although the book has a portrait orientation, it has more of a landscape feel to it.I selected this book from the library a few weeks ago but hadn't got around to reading it yet--I'm a fan of wolves and hoped this would be cute. I have written and illustrated a book 10 Little Rabbits, which explains why rabbit is so keen to learn about wolves. So I just sort of put them together and thought, “Well, if you move the comma, then it makes a completely different sort of set of images.

I can imagine using this text with a group of year one children and further developing, through using ICT, more background on wolves and rabbits. Then report their data to a national study to help build up a wider picture of the UKs fauna and flora. I also provided an alternative (although slightly unbelievable) ending for sensitive readers made of ripped up pieces of the book.The alternative ending also creates a nice touch to allow the sensitive readers to wallow in an ordinary tale of a rabbit and a wolf.

Some of our partners may process your data as a part of their legitimate business interest without asking for consent. Very unusual for a picture book to leave me nervously laughing in a combination of horror and surprise. Together they imitate and then imagine visiting a string of real animals, from penguins to kangaroos, whose glorious images fill the pages.

I like the comment that no rabbits were eaten during the making of the book and even more, the ending, in which the rabbit and the wolf share a sandwich - this is so childish, so cute, so warm, so. The species we see today are almost identical to their ancestors which flew over 300 million years ago. A wolf gradually begins to take shape within each illustrated spread, becoming larger and larger as the rabbit becomes smaller and smaller. But one example is at the end of Monkey and Me in the English version, the little girl, she goes home for tea which is not just a cup of tea, but it means a meal that we have at the end of the day.

Wolves” is beautifully illustrated and has a totally different story than most of the picture books I’ve read so far. Gravett "realised that I wanted a career, and drawing was my only skill", so she began an art course. Gravett provides an amusing and cheery alternative ending to the story for those with a sensitive disposition - our aforementioned tea party.The illustrations in his book also reflect this type of line - sketchy and incomplete - differentiating both Rabbit and the wolf illustrations from the solid and complete lines of the book itself and, in turn, creating a sense of relationship between Rabbit and the story he reads. In the third year of my illustration degree at Brighton University we were given the project title: United we stand - Divided we fall. I’d like to do it one day, but I think it’d be quite difficult because when you’re making a picture book, both the text and the picture are sort of equally important and they’re dependent on each other. I made a little dummy book and moved text around in it, accidentally sticking the final word of the sentence “They also enjoy smaller mammals like beaver, voles and rabbits” on the wrong page. This is a picture book about a rabbit (naturally) who goes to the library (also, naturally) and checks out a book on WOLVES.