Fox English Essay Picture Book

407 Words2 Pages
Fox A successful picture book employs both text and images to convey meaning and express themes. The picture book ‘Fox’, by Margaret Wild and Ronald Brooks, is a perfect example of how important both text and visual features are through the use of choice of image, colours, vectors, positioning and symbolism. The text in a picture book is important as it guides a reader to what the story is about and answers the questions how, where, what and when without text, simply looking at the pictures will be confusing. In ‘Fox’ the text speeds up the story telling by tenfold without the text you’ll be wondering why is that fox looking at them and how come the magpie doesn’t find it comfortable. Choices of images are important in any picture book without the right choice of image the reader will get easily bored if the choices of images aren’t in sync with the text. In ‘Fox’ it has the perfect selection of images. The fox is staring hungrily and angrily at the bird and the dog as though thinking if they can have fun why can’t I?. The colours used are significant in showing the scenes in pictures dark colours are used when there is danger or lighter colours when the scene is a peaceful scene. In ‘Fox’ the scene is portrayed as a darker scene with the fox lurking around them waiting to take up his role and stop they’re relationship. Vectors in a picture book are essential so a reader knows where to start reading and where to end. Vectors are especially important for the illustrator to make the readers eyes follow where they should. In this case the ‘Fox’ has excellent vectors you don’t miss out on any important parts of text. The images are positioned so the reader can see where to start. The salient image in this page is the fox it’s brightly coloured and large it just draws your eyes to it easily. The layout of the a page is important as anything the way
Open Document