Early Children’s Literature: Fiction

Early Children's Literature: Fiction uses black and white illustrations in order to teach young children what natural disasters are and what they do. Books such as "The Bashful Earthquake" by Oliver Herford and "Father Aldur" by Agnes Gilburn are included in this exhibit. Pictures in this category are relatively humorous and use features such as shading in order to create certain moods for the reader. Extreme weather events are portrayed in a before and after series of pictures. This makes it so that children understand the aftermath of these natural disasters. These illustrations in early children's fiction books give the audience a basic understanding of these extreme weather conditions with a large emphasis on "what".