Foraging 2

Forrest

1. Forrest can be the most deverse area of any surrounding as they are full of loads of different types edible plants which are just waiting to be found and cooked.

Wild Mushrooms are some of the favorite foods which you can find durring your time in the woods. As they grow in wet and windy conditions woodlands can be one of teh best places for this food to grown. Some of the other foods found here are:-

• Beech Nuts
• Chestnuts
• Elderberries
• Wild Mushrooms
• Wild Strawberris
• Hazzelnuts

 

Foraging

Banks, hedgerows and ditch edges

1. Banks, hedgerows and ditch edgesare some of the best places to find great tasting food. 

Horseradish is one of the main food you are able to find in this type of land. They can be found here as there roots like to go deep and they are protected by other plants. Other plants that can be found around these areas are:-

• Rosehips
• Hourseradish
• Blackberries
• Rasberries
• Elderberries
• Hawthron Berries

You Tube Video /BBC Countryfile

Key Findings

• Kids may want to have a forage in the woods
• Making and baking food after all teh picking on the blueberry and wild plants.
• Its important to get kids to find locally sourced foods and natuaral flavoured foods aswell.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjQGba13Mlc

Research Task Two - Book Styles

The Dragons of Wayward Crescent: Gruffen

Age Range 9-11

The style of this book from a child’s point of view might be very boring but as this is aimed at an older child then it’s not all about the images any more but the information on the pages. 

If you look at the style of the front cover of the book you are able to see that they have

Used a detailed font with a very well-drawn presented image of a dragon. 

On the front page of the book the main body of the page is filled with text instead of one large image. This is almost the standard look for a book for this age range.

For this age range one of the main things that I will be looking for a clear text to the kid can read and possible enjoy what they are reading. The uses of images for this age range are still appropriate but not so much, and if they are used they are used in a low quantity and of the same style of drawing.

Elmer

Age Range  3-6

For this age range this style of book is almost perfect for them where the image consist of most of the page that the child will be looking at. The use of many colours will also make the child interact with the book easier as it will keep them engaged for longer.

Having an easy to read font for the adult to read and the child might be able to read as well is a must for this age range otherwise how can the adult and child bond over a good book?

With this age range the style of book has to be concentrated on the imagery involved, so lots of it basically. The text is mainly for the adults so they can read to their child and bond with them. The amount of colour to keep the child interested is high but for this age range it’s appropriate.

Animal Babies ABC: An Alphabet Book of Animal Offspring

 Age Range Baby/ Toddler

Designing a book for babies and toddlers is one of the harder options to take as the baby needs to understand most of it or just realise what’s on the page. I have chosen the book about as this is what I think works as a babies book. The main point for me is that the baby will be able to learn as well during the book instead of just looking at pictures. This is a way to keep the child involved in the book so there attentions don’t wander off. This book is made up of real images instead of illustrations, this is so the baby has seen these before maybe in the park or somewhere and will recognise the picture and then they will learn to word that goes to that image. 

Babies’ books are all about getting the child to learn about their surroundings normally using images and a small amount of text alongside them. This is a proven techniques and the child is learning all the time with words and pictures

Evaluation

The books that I have chosen I think work very well in the age ranges that we had to choose from. The younger the child is the more imagery is used in the book compared with fewer images and more writing the older you go. This seems to be apparent in all children’s books. The choices I have done represent this very well by showing you that images are not always the proper method to get across information to the infant.

1. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=hRGAEOinUo0C&pg=PT8&dq=Dragons+Of+Wayward+Crescent+Collection&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Wjs6T4qrAoqb0QXu3dWaCw&ved=0CD0Q6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=Dragons%20Of%20Wayward%20Crescent%20Collection&f=false

2. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=7e-upGWt-zsC&printsec=frontcover&dq=elmer&hl=en&sa=X&ei=sDw6T7XmDIyn8gPv-fzkCg&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=elmer&f=false

3. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=RKWwsqfDpvEC&printsec=frontcover&dq=babies+books&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ij46T4yQGou68gOc8IXoCg&ved=0CHcQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=babies%20books&f=false

Movie in class of Children’s Picture Books

• Kids use images to understand the book as most are learning to read.

•  Rhyme, rhythm, repetition.

• They are a bonding experience for child and adult.

•   Randolph Caldecott – First to use humour. Made one nursery rhyme in a whole book by using ONE picture for ONE sentence.

•  Published between 1877/1886.

• Thomas the Tank engine was first published in 1942 by Wilbert Awdry.

• The face on the tanks makes Thomas such a successful series, just by using the expression.

• 1949 Enid Blyton – Noddy.

• They weren’t wildly accepted as most of the stories where of naughty things and saying “Sorry…” all the time.

• Brian Wildsmith – His work is a riot of colour and texture. One of the first illustrators to use paint in the books.

•  He wanted his books to not be accurate but messy and full of creativity.

• Pat Hutchins - The book is designed to be a sort of silent movie where very little text compared to the amount of pictures. The pictures tell the story with little text to explain the imagery.

• John Birningham – His books have very little text or stories but makes the reader and the child become together and letting them talk together and make their own assumptions from the illustrations.

• This is making the child talk to the parent and getting them involved with the book.

• Helen A – This book uses no words at all but only images. But done in a way which only children can look at and understand. The parent has to explain a story to them, this a method of having the baby learn about the things around them.

Dave Titas

1.            Why have you chosen this illustrator?  

I have chosen this illustrator as his isn’t just a person who design books for children his also do commercial project including advertising. Character designs are his speciality and his work is a unique one by using out of proportion characters. I like his work as you are able to aim it at any audience and they will still recognise his work.

2.            Provide a description of their art style as well as their published work
to date.

The way he uses light perspective drawing is one of his major features. Having small white patches to highlight a curved area of a face for instance is something he is great at doing as it gives his work a 3D feel. He uses a bright and colourful set of techniques as well and large scale head of his characters compared with the rest of the bodies. 

3.            Suggest an age range that you think the art style is aimed at and explain your choice.

His age range is primarily for young kids around the age of five but you are able to see each of his workings go for an older audience. I think this because some of the stuff is bold and is presented as an almost fun way of drawing. He has worked with children’s packaging and logo design as well and designing characters for children’s books and this makes him more commercial across and larger age range.