Storybook Favorites

Storybook Favorites.

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The titles of the three storybooks that stood out to me sound like they are all play-on-word names of popular song titles. Perhaps that speaks to the nature of the stories and their source of inspiration. Of these titles, we will begin with one not written by the Eurythmics.


Storybook One: Sweet Dreams Are Made of These: Karma
Source: https://sites.google.com/site/moralesepics/

Student (and mother of four) Rachel Morales organized her storybook into five parts; an introduction page and one page for each of her four children. Her homepage introduction explains that each part of her storybook is a bedtime story based on an Indian epic tailored to the interest of each of her children. A small navigation panel is located to the left of each page and each page link is named according to the child she is tailoring the story to. I find her organization unique and creative. Being a father of several of my own children, Morales' approach speaks to me in a fondly personal way. What a great way to take an epic story and make it relatively intimate manner! 


Storybook Two: Here Comes Surya 
Source: https://sites.google.com/site/herecomessurya/home

 In the storybook, Here Comes Surya, the author takes the voice of Surya acting as a reality talk show host. With a little bit of Bollywood imagination, the storybook author delivers four individual tales in a fun, interesting way. The storybook organization is clean and neat with text on the right half and an image on the left. I appreciate the simplicity of the layout and the creativity of the storytelling. Like Sweet Dreams Are Made of These,  the layout out includes a small navigation panel to the upper left of the page that is easy to instantly discern the overall storybook composition. 

Storybook Three: To Love and Lose
Source: https://sites.google.com/view/indiaepicsstorybook-hr/home

I chose the storybook, To Love and Lose, as my final selection because the author uses animated .gif images to enhance the reader's mental imagery. The images include fire elements and creeping atmospheric fog elements under each story text. Although the concept runs the risk of being too visually busy for the reader, the author chooses contrasting colors that work.


In conclusion, the authors of each of these three storybooks found fun engaging ways to connect the Indian epics to the reader. My take away for future assignments for the Indian Epics coursework will include looking for ways to add my own layer of story telling to each epic story line with special consideration for the overall aesthetic and appeal of the page the text is placed upon.