My Storybook Favorites

Bedtime in Oz. This storybook caught my attention right off the back because of the word "Oz". I love the Wizard of Oz and frequently played the role of the Lion in many different childhood plays. I thought that the author did a great job of coming up with creative titles for chapters/sections such as Toto's Tellings and The Scarecrow's Story. Each different story is about a different character telling their personal experience of the road to Oz. I loved this idea and have been brainstorming about creating a storybook using a similar angle on a famous story, movie, or show. I also thought the photo of Toto on the Toto's Tellings story was very cute and allowed me to imagine cute little Toto actually telling the story himself.

Yellow Brick Road

Another storybook that caught my attention was the Happily Ever After? A Prince's Perspective . Each story was about a different Disney story and what happened to the prince and princess afterwards, years later. Once again, I enjoy taking a classic story or movie and rewriting it, changing the viewpoint or perspective in which it is told. I also liked that the author elaborated and made the stories of the storybook modern day. The different princes' stories made the book easy to follow and easy to understand. 

Lastly, I also enjoyed  E! True Hollywood Story: Women of the Bible. I liked how the author turned Bible Women into a celebrity gossip show in the form of a storybook. The storybook had a consistent and identical structure to how hosts speak on E! True Hollywood Stories I enjoyed the modern day twist and also the title also grabbed my attention because the show E! is very familiar to me. The author had an image on each story's page which allowed me to make each story more realistic and made me imagine the E! drama as if I was watching it on TV.