Comparisons of James Marshalls Books

Similarities Differences

Included text AND drawings
Use of imagery
Use of figurative language
Expression through text, characters
quotes, repetition of words, italics,
adjectives, punctuation (exclamation),
drawing of characters faces
His type of artwork: characters had two
dots for eyes, water color
Structure of text: sentences,
paragraphs, quotations
Third person
Humor
Theme/morals


Retellings
Wrote his own
Illustrated for other authors
Not all of his books that were written
were drawn by him; he had illustrators
draw for his books.
Animals were used as characters
Human characters