Pigling
By Dan Jolley and Anne Timmons
This book is a Korean Cinderella story so there are some variations on the events in the book but the main idea is similar to the American version of the Cinderella story. This is not your average picture book; it is actually a graphic novel. Graphic novels are books that consist of multiple illustrations on one page with the text included in the illustrations. When I was reading it I felt as though I was reading an entire book of comic strips from a newspaper. The illustrations were very much like a comic book as well. The illustrations were drawn with a pencil and there was a lot of detail in the pictures, in the background and in the characters’ faces.
After looking at books with all text it was nice to be able to look at the pictures and understand what is going on without necessarily looking at the text. I think these books would be great when teaching children to read because the pictures can help the reader understand what is happening in the story as well as make sense of the text. The book does not have numbered chapters but it is broken into sections so it makes the children seem like they are reading a chapter books.