Town Mouse House

Rating:
Summary: Wonderful Illustrations helpful to young readers
Review: The design of a book and its illustrations set the tone and mood of a book. Town Mouse House is set in 1900's and the pictures are decorated to fit the time period. Watercolors are used to get a lighter shade and a more antique look. Each picture is designed to copy the time period through the clothes and different household objects of the mice family. The pages are bordered with a scrapbook like edge. It seems like Augustus John is showing his scrapbook of his life. This design reaches the reader and makes them feel drawn to his life and they want to find out more. Therefore, through the design, it stimulates the reader to make creative connections. For example, Augustus John recounts, "Our back door is called the tradesmen's entrance" (Nigel and Horner 6). He describes how all the different tradesmen come to his back door to deliver supplies while the page shows different pictures for each job, including a dressmaker, grocer, and a baker's boy. This could lead to the reader wondering about each of these jobs and what they did. They would connect each job with the time period and learn more about that time period.

Rating:
Summary: Wonderful Illustrations helpful to young readers
Review: The design of a book and its illustrations set the tone and mood of a book. Town Mouse House is set in 1900's and the pictures are decorated to fit the time period. Watercolors are used to get a lighter shade and a more antique look. Each picture is designed to copy the time period through the clothes and different household objects of the mice family. The pages are bordered with a scrapbook like edge. It seems like Augustus John is showing his scrapbook of his life. This design reaches the reader and makes them feel drawn to his life and they want to find out more. Therefore, through the design, it stimulates the reader to make creative connections. For example, Augustus John recounts, "Our back door is called the tradesmen's entrance" (Nigel and Horner 6). He describes how all the different tradesmen come to his back door to deliver supplies while the page shows different pictures for each job, including a dressmaker, grocer, and a baker's boy. This could lead to the reader wondering about each of these jobs and what they did. They would connect each job with the time period and learn more about that time period.