The Text
I based the writing on ‘Five little Ducks went swimming one day’,
so that the book can be sung as well as read.
Instead, its Five aliens going over the moon. I wanted it to be a bed-time book, so they go
home to their own spaceships, leaving Little Star and Moon to return to a
friendly cloud to sleep (I’ve watched too much CBeebies). The second book is the traditional ‘Twinkle
Twinkle little star' which is so well known, that I felt I could play around with the images in terms of accuracy a little more. I know the images had to be accurate with a number book. Small children are very proud of their counting skills, and would be the first to complain if a page was short of an alien.
The Font.
I needed an appropriate font for the text. The dummy books I made up using Chalkboard,
as so many of the books for this age group use a rounded sans-serif font which
is easier for small children to pick out individual letter shapes.
Ben suggested that I use the lightbox to create my own font
by hand lettering on top of existing fonts.
I tried this, but wasn’t pleased with the results, as I couldn’t get the
lettering the right thickness, and having looked at toddler books again, I
decided to go back to an existing font, but find a better one than
chalkboard. After lots of searching, I
came up with Tecton Pro, extended bold to get the width of lettering that I
wanted. It looks cleaner and neater than
my text, which fits in with the (slightly) digital look of the
illustrations. I chose white for the
main body of the text, with Pink for the title to make it stand out. As I discussed in my Power-point session, it
would be great to produce different ranges of books using different colours to
indicate the subject area.
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