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Before the 18th century there was no seperate catogory for childrens books in western Europe. The first printed books available to children where, The Bible, Stories of Saints and Martyrs, or books about exotic animals. The woodcut illustrations of these early books would be intreging even to those unable to read the text. In these books would be stories about punishment to bad boys and girls to force them to behave. All humour and imagination was band!

The way Nick Sharratt and Jacquline Wilson have worked together on this book and many others works brilliantly, with both the text and the illustrations complementing each other. The illustrations are light-hearted which best conveys the atmosphere that the author was trying to create.

The first european school book was by Johann Amos Comenius (1592-1670). It would be layed out so that the illustration would be at the top half of the page and the text would be beneath it. It would always be layed out in this simple format. Adults and children would learn from it, children using the illustratons and adults learning from the text.

When this book is first glanced through it appears as colourful and quite lively. Although it is a long story and so there is alot of text. Illustration's are on full A4 pages and also smaller illustration's sit between the text. The front cover is a full page water-colour illustration taken from his one hundred paintings which are throughout the book. The front page image shows Alice swimming through a pool with the animals. I like the painting because it looks like a dream, not like real life atall. The soft colours give a dreamy effect. The text on the front page is plain but suits the layout.

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