Whether a book is worth its price

Today, a couple of the classmates had some arguments over the pages in the book the three pigs being completely blank. Some argued that the blank pages were a waste of space and paper; some argued that it is part of the art work. And I was one of those who liked to pages and was thinking of it from an art perspective. Growing up liking art, art works tend to get my attention more than almost anything else. When I was clipping through the pages of the Three Pigs, I thought this was just going to be another typical children’s book. However, while reading the story, started to realized that there were actually two different kinds of drawing in the book. And for how amazingly the illustrator had link the relationship between the two kinds to the story, I was very pleased by the mind of the art. To me, it is a new way of thinking. Even just having the characters jumping and playing around with the book pages made me think out side of the box.

The second part I like the art work of this book was because of the blank pages and the use of negative space. When I flipped through those pages, I really felt that I was somehow being pulled into the story, with them, flying around in the paper plane. And I felt like that the blank page really created the feeling of free and sky being unlimited. To some extend, I felt like, my emotion were being drag into the free space along with how the paper plane were going, which may also represent how I was somehow feeling released from the old fashion the three little pigs story. Personally, I think that the art work in this book really did a good job of drawing audiences into the story with them.

Another point that was being brought up during the discussion was the conversation bubbles. I personally think that even though reader should probably be able to figure the story line without many of the conversation bubbles, I still think that the bubble did a significant job of building the relationship between the characters in the book and the audiences. Because words in the bubbles, like a couple classmates had pointed out, perhaps spoke for audiences’ mind as they read through the story. Especially with the page where the pig mention about there being a person out there reading them. I thought that the author really did a good job using every little possible detail to create the atmosphere of the story line and mood of this book.