Case study: Helen Ward, The Tin Forest

The Tin Forest is interesting when compared to Varmints as the use of words that imply sounds only begin to appear in the later half of the story. This helps to reinforce the almost deadness of the world and highlight the life beginning with the arrival of the animals to the forest. The text uses a lot of descriptive words and state things that need to be in the illustrations. Of course the illustrator can add to all these elements by introducing characters or elements that are not stated in the text. The notes taken are shown below although only some colours show on the scans.