ILLUSTRATED CHILDREN'S BOOKS

STORIES with COLORS

I created and organized this site to showcase some amazing illustrated books.
The criteria for the three-page divisions are vague, and books near a borderline may be classified either way. Books for younger children tend to be written in simple language and use large print. Books for older children use increasingly complex language and normal print. The categories with an age range are listed below:

Early Reader books, appropriate for children ages 0 — 6.
Middle-School Reader books, appropriate for children ages 7 — 12.
Young-Adult Fiction books, appropriate for teenagers ages 13 — 18.

When I was 5 years old, my father got me an amazing illustrated book, "Spirou Album — No. 66". Later on, I got more subsequent Spirou Albums and countless other books. That first Spirou Album got lost when we moved. I forgot about it until several years ago. Seeing its cover image on the Internet, I remembered that first Spirou and luckily was able to get it. Flipping the pages, I felt as if riding a time machine back to the moments my eyes first laid on those images. I recalled the unforgettable, strong, and deep inquisitive feelings. They gave me so much happiness!

Both my parents are artists. I'm now in visual art and love illustrated books. These amazing stories allow readers to live in worlds of endless possibilities. These text are accompanied with the colors, lines, and styles of the illustrators; from realistic to whimsical, subdue tonal to explosively saturated. They are stories with colors!

The magazine "Journal de Spirou No.66" contains 10 issues. Each issue consists of 32 pages of 20 x 28 cm format. Publisher: Dupuis

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