rate the book
Book #1 THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR (Eric Carle)
Artistic style and graphic excellence
(Including typography and its suitability for the implied readership)
Comments: (4.5)using colorful graphic, attractive
Effective use of media and technique
Comments: (5) The pictures are collages of specially prepared papers.
Color, line, shape, texture
Comments: (5) colorful, rectangle, only one sentence and easy to read.
Relationship between illustration and text
Comments: (4) connected, one of the text on a page is interesting.
One noun is above its illustration.
Consistency of style, characterization, information and setting
Comments: (5) nice consistency, interesting characterization
Clarity appropriateness and aesthetic appeal of illustrations
Comments: (5) strong appeal of illustrations
Quality of book design, production, printing and binding
Comments: (5) using high quality paper and printing, the price matches with its quality. Nice binding. Many pages have holes.
General Comments: (Including qualities or merits of the book not captured by the above
Criteria: (5) This book has cute cover, colorful illustration and attractive story, the size is nice for parents and children reading together.
Book #2 SUMI’S PRIZE (UCHIDA)
Artistic style and graphic excellence
(including typography and its suitability for the implied readership)
Comments: 2.5 only black and red are used, not colorful, simple, using many types of brushes
Effective use of media and technique
Comments: 3.5 the line of brush, hue, using only black and red sometimes mixed up.
Color, line, shape, texture
Comments: 4 simple color; many kinds of line: horizontal+vertical+curves+diagonal, many kinds of shape: circle+rectangle+square, different use of same line, texture: easy to read
Relationship between illustration and text
Comments: 4 nice relationship, many connection between illustration and text
Consistency of style, characterization, information and setting
Comments: 4 unified, characters are in detail, easy to get information, interesting setting
Clarity appropriateness and aesthetic appeal of illustrations
Comments:5 beautiful brush touches
Quality of book design, production, printing and binding
Comments: 5 simple design(only red), using fibre of binding ,
General Comments: (Including qualities or merits of the book not captured by the above
criteria):4 readers can get information from illustrations easily,