The Hare and the Tortoise

Wildsmith, Brian. The Hare and the Tortoise. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1966.
The Genre of this book is Fantasy because animals can not talk in real life. This book is about a slow tortoise that challenges a quick hare to race. The hare is very arrogant and thinks he will win for sure, only to find that by being arrogant he will loose to the less appealing opponent. This story takes place in a field outside and is told by an omniscient narrative. The theme is that you should never give up and that looks can be very deceiving.
The media of this book includes watercolor for some of the illustrations and acrylic for many. The style of art is cartoon because the shapes are all very simplified and many of the characters are distorted. The placement on the page varies but generally takes up most of the space sometimes even extending over onto the next page. The author uses straight lines, to form different objects and also blends colors to give it a watercolor effect. The colors used are very bright and catch the reader's eye.

The author put the drawings and text together very well to create the story. The words were simple to encourage young readers and the pictures also helped. This book allows kids to know that they can do whatever they put their minds to. It was made for children from 4-8 years in age, the perfect time to begin teaching them life lessons.