Key questions we posed to ourselves before arriving at our decision…
What will our final product be? A collection of poetry? Alternatively, one single short story? Will each send out a completely different message?
Who is our target audience? Are we limiting this to just children? Can we extend our focus to older readers as well?
What are we researching for? Linguistic style, structure, symbolism, what effect illustrations have?
What texts do we base our final product on? Some suggestions from our mentor...
More of Shel Silvestein’s works (eg. The Giving Tree)
Alice in Wonderland?
Oscar Wilde’s fables
Alice in Wonderland?
Oscar Wilde’s fables
All greatly differ from each other in terms of language, style and aesthetics in the form of pictures.
Which style do we think is superior and thus, want our final product to take after the most? Alternatively, can we incorporate different styles?
In the end, we decided that our project aims to explore the symbolism in children’s literature only older readers can comprehend. Therefore, our final product must be appealing to both target groups.
In the end, we decided that our project aims to explore the symbolism in children’s literature only older readers can comprehend. Therefore, our final product must be appealing to both target groups.