BOOKS
Created: 14th August, 2015

Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Book?

Author: Lauren Child
Illustrator: Lauren Child
Publisher: Orchard

COLLECTION

Literature

YEAR GROUP

Years 3 and 4

BOOK TYPE

Corebooks

In this post-modern picture book, Herb falls asleep on the open pages of his book of fairy tales, and finds himself in a topsy-turvy world which he gradually discovers he has participated in making. Goldilocks is most displeased to find him in bed in the three bears’ house. What has happened to Cinderella’s Prince Charming? And why is there a telephone in every room?

Lauren Child makes imaginative use of collage, incorporating food and fabrics, while her distinctive characters are drawn in a deceptively child-like style. The overall design of the pages plays an important part in the storytelling, with the font types and sizes and their position on the page being used to convey meaning.