Childrens picture book research

One was of encouraging children to get involved in cooking and baking is by creating cook books based around animated and illustrated characters as children will want to own and follow the book because there favioute character(s) are involved. The books more often than not blend real time photographs with illustrated characters, sometimes even using the technique of Rotoscope to include the characters into the photos.

I have been researching into these books because I would like to include illustrations in my work due to the fact that I’m single illustration.

 Cooking with Pooh is a children’s recipe book themed around popular Disney character Winnie the pooh and was popular enough to get a computer game release on the Nintendo Ds.

 Examples of other Disney themed cook books include “The princess and the frog, Tianas cookbook”
“Cooking with Mickey around the world”, “Ratatouille What’s cooking” and “Minnie N me cooking together”.

Dora and Diego Let’s cook is another great example of a children’s book that blends illustrations with photographs. Using both Dora and Diego also makes the book appeal to both male and female audiences.

 

Straying away from the more famous characters, even simple illustrations can capture and holds a children’s interest. “The everything Kids cookbook” focuses a lot more on the photographs in the book but does include some quirky little characters throughout the book. There are countless examples of similar themed/styled picture books