Preschool Day Hooray Book

The first picture book I looked through was Preschool Day Hooray! by Linda Leopold Strauss and illustrated by Hiroe Nakata. The story is about activities a child will experience in a typical preschool day. There is not a lot of text in the story, I would estimate and say an average of 5 words per page. Reviewing the table “How Illustrations Contribute to Picture Book Stories” I noticed several literary elements. The first literary element I noticed was character. Since the story is explaining the usual preschool day, it does not mention in the text that other children will be present. Instead the illustrator delivers this message through the pictures. Throughout the story the pictures show several boys and girls participating in the activities. The setting visually represented in the book as the room and activity changes as the students complete the day of preschool. The theme and style of the story are also shown through the illustrations. The theme is shown through the different pictures on each page which represents a different activity during preschool, …show more content…
I read this novel about a little longer than a year ago. The author and illustrator of this book is Art Spiegelman. The graphic novel is a retelling of his father’s experiences as a Polish-Jewish citizen in Poland before and during the Holocaust. The graphic novel is presented in a manner that is similar to a comic book. Word and thought bubbles are in the telling of the story. Spiegelman uses animals to represent people in his story, for example mice are Polish-Jewish citizens while cats are Germans. Reflecting on the table in chapter 4, a literary element being used in his story is character. The characterization of the victims and villains are done through the illustration of mice and cats. The artistic media in the story is graphite pencils. The graphic novel is black and white. As a result of there being no color, the images are complex and