Importance of Illustrations in Children's Book
It is a big challenge to stimulate kids towards books, but appearance of a book really plays a major role in arousing charm of reading among kids. Illustrative books plays an extensive role in alluring interest of reading books in kids. The Comenius’s Orbis Pictus was one of the renowned book among the first kids book with illustrations and having primer text on it. The famous Aesop Fables’s, first english edition in 1484 has the illustrations of woodcuts in it. Earlier the work of illustrations was not recognized but later it was acknowledged with the art and illustration of Thomas Bewick in his books. Gradually, enormous changes in the work of illustrations was found in 1960 where new technologies were introduced and creativity and innovations were used to improvise colors, images and graphics. Maurice Sendak’s ‘ Where the Wild Things Are’ was the famous book of 1960. After 1980 there was vast technical changes were found in the field of illustrations in the books. Now we also see