Year 5

What makes a book popular?

During Term 3, the Year 5 students will be participating in a children's picture story book study. We will be analysing successful children's story books that have become iconic over the years. 

Our study question is: What makes a book popular?

Our goal is: To write and illustrate a short picture story book with a well-defined character for our buddies in Prep. 

Last week we started looking at Pig the Pug, an all-time classic book series. The students focused on each character, Pig the Pug and Trevor the Sausage Dog. They noticed that both characters eyes were extremely emotive and brought a lot of humour to the story. Also, how ears and eyebrows show impact and tell us how the character is feeling, that there are only a small number of pictures on the page and how there is little detail in each picture. Several students recognised the events in the story are very similar to how 5 or 6 year olds behave and decided this was the target audience.

The students then had the task of reproducing the front cover of Pig the Pug with their own character, following the illustrative features discussed earlier.

Some of our ideas are below. 

Which one would you want to read?

5N chose Frank the Frog by Mani.