Jeremy Chris Flaile

Jeremy by Chris Faille, illustrated by Danny Snell is a non-fiction picture book, narrated in first person from a child’s perspective. This perspective adds depth to the story by connecting readers to the protagonists thought processes, adding believability to the text (Mallett, 2016, p. 200), and additionally building characterisation through dialogue. Capturing appeal of readers from the front cover, using its vivid and atypical picture of a bird sitting on a lounge chair. It continues to intrigue as a true account of a young child caring for a baby bird, provides factual information and realistic language forms (Duke, 2003 as citied in Bortnam, 2008, p. 32) introducing children to non-fiction in an engaging manner. Use of specific time-related words provide a sequential timeline to the theme of a growing kookaburra from after its birth to ready to take flight in the wild, supported by rich and detailed imagery (Callow, 2016, p. 9) created by the illustrator using acrylic paints. For instance, existence of an ant and a teddy bear only occurs in …show more content…
In the sentence ‘at night he liked to watch television’ (Faille, 2013, p. 12), suggests Jeremy has human like hobbies and in the action of saying goodbye with a kiss to young girl, another suggestion of human achievement unusual to wild birds is made. Readers are also able to vision how Jeremy sounds with mention of his loud squawking an example of onomatopoeia and an exclamation mark placed at the end of that sentence, further emphasises how noisy the character is, an example of a hyperbole. Assonance in the repetition of the phonemes in ‘at night he liked’ (Faille, 2013, p. 12) and in ‘Jeremy’s new feathers’ (Faille, 2013, p. 16) add musicality to the words whilst lexical cohesion is evident when discussing the appearance of Jeremy, supporting the theme of the narrative (Mallett, 2016, p. 201) and the