books aimed towards 5-7 year olds.

Below are some examples of children's books aimed towards 5-7 year olds. I've found between these two books that there very illustrative, the text style suggests that the parents would read to the children. These elements mixed together makes the child listen to the story while looking at the pictures. As they are so detailed they are kept occupied, this also offers scope to play a game with parent and child e.g "can you find 5 bears?…"


The Teddy Bears Picnic

This shows an example of some lovely illustrations, very detailed with lots visually to look at, I may use something like this in my own designs. I can remember reading this book as a child and loving the rhythm of the poem with in the text style. I think the positioning of the typography is lovely, its subtle and follows a clear hierarchy, the typeface used follows the style of the traditional book it is with a serif typeface. I personally feel a san serif typeface is more legible but as its more likely the parent would read the book it's not too much of an issue. An extra nice element is that the start and end pages show the characters traveling to and from the picnic, another visual element that can enraptures the audience.


Peepo!

Peeop! is another favourite books of mine. As before it has some lovely illustrations. It also has a subtle interactive element with the circle cut out on every other page. I used to really enjoy this book because of this. Again, the text is constructed in a rhythmic way. Rhythm and repetition is proven to enhance learning for a child and relates to them as this is how they follow a day to day life. These are all considerations that i will think about with my own designs.


I think this was a great book twenty years ago but as technology changes and everything improves, i feel there are more expectations nowadays. i think i need to add an interactive element but i think it needs to be more than peepo! has to offer.