Book Review

We are suppose to talk about our favorite book and the cover of that book. I am not much of a reader, I just don't enjoy sitting down and reading, however I do have my favorite childhood book. I got this book when I was probably about a first grade and fell in love with it ever since. The book is Elmer. I loved this book because of the story line and the fantastic colors. This book is about an elephant that is checkered like the seen on the cover and lives within the rest of the elephants who are normal colored grey elephants. Throughout the book he does all sorts of things trying to become that color of the rest of the elephants , like rubbing grapes etc. However the rain washes it off and all the elephants keep making fun of him for being different. Then at the end they want Elmer to fit in and they paint themselves all the loud colors in different patterns. Its a great children's book talking about how its okay to not fit in. The cover is designed just like how Elmer looks throughout the whole book. This book's cover is extremely vibrant and most children are drawn to such colorful objects. The illustrator was smart putting the elephant on the cover because again most children love books associated with animals. The colors are simply stated in the checker pattern. The cover doesn't have anything else on it to the busy pattern simple. Its a children's book, children won't usually care about all the stuff on covers beside the pictures. There isn't much to go off the cover it is a very simple cover. It only consists of a background and main element and the title and author's name. Even the the text is simple to keep the cover from being too busy.

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