I have been checking out children's books from the library. The first book I read is called Dancing Drum, a Cherokee legend. Written by Terri Cohlene and Illustrated by Charles Reasoner. The books illustrations through out the book have a blue/grey color tone until the very end where the landscape is bright and sunny and there are green fields, which as I have talked about in previous blogs shows the progression and potential growth of a character. What is interesting in this book, the main character is not the one that ended up learning and growing, it was the sun and not the little boy. As far as the illustrations, the characters are simple and most of them have a texture underneath which helps bring life and dimension to them. Most of the time in books the main character is closer to the reader, but in this book they did not follow this rule. I believe that if the illustrator did, then the book would have been a little bit more sucessful.
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