Children Literature---Willy's Pictures by Anthony Browne

SUMMARY

Willy loves painting and looking at pictures.  He knows that every picture tells a story.  His works look like some famous works, but not really... You can see Willy and his bananas in famous paintings like Mona Lisa, The birth of Venus, ...and so on.

ANALYSIS

CHARACTERS
Willy the monkey

NARRATIVE POINT OF VIEW
Internal Narrator

THEME
Using pictures to tell Willy's Story

STYLE
Word Choice--- Use kid's way to talk, so the words are easy to understand.
Sentence---Most of the sentences are long because of describing pictures.
Exposition--- Willy described the meaning of his idea about each picture.
Dialogue---None

TONE
Humorous,  warm, lovely

AWARD
Hans Christian Andersen Medal---for excellence in illustraition

REFLECTION
I like this book because it changes the famous paintings by putting Willy in and his bananas.  After painting these pictures, Willy would like to add some words under the pictures.  Plus, the writer help us to understand the picture more, he puts fold-out pages of the original famous paintings at the end of the book.  With his humor, we can see the writer uses different point of view to see a picture, so do us~

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"Quick, cover yourself up!"

Lots and Lots and Lots of Dots

"We gradually started to notice some very strange thins in the park."

Coming to Life

"I was just finishing this painting when I heard a small voice say, 'give us a hand.' "