My Storybook Favorites

The first storybook that caught my eye was "1000 Ways To Die: Demon Edition" because it is a play on a t.v. show that I really like. The author of this page uses the same title image and the same type of opening statement that the t.v. show uses, so it makes me start thinking about some of the previous episodes I've seen. The introduction provides very good detail in what to expect in the stories within the storybook. The layout of the introduction is very basic, but it does a good job in conveying the type of gore and bloodshed that are the topics of the story through its use of a black background and some red text incorporated. The overall navigation is easy and straight forward and all the pages are the same design. I like how the author incorporated his stories to an existing storytelling shows style and I may consider something similar.

1,000 Ways to Die

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The second storybook that I came across was "Epic Indian Battles" by Ben Denton. This title was catchy for me because I like historical documentaries of battles. The introduction was very creative with the author choosing to have a pessimistic man telling how exaggerated the stories were. The layout and design of the page were easily navigable and had a consistent design on every page. I did not see anything that jumped out to me as a great design that I may want to use in my own project but the creativity of the retelling of the stories from a different perspective was quite clever.

Rama vs. Ravana

Image Source: BBC Website

The final storybook that caught my eye was "Women of Epic Proportions" by Rosa Pasuarella. After reading the introduction it was clear that this book was going to be a play on a matchmaking game show. Normally I would not be interested in a dating show, but the page was designed so well and the use of pictures prompted me to continue reading into the book. I liked design of this book and how it used the entire page with very little clutter to distract the reader from reading the page. All the stories were completely dialogue based, which is something I may consider for one of my stories, but not all of them. Overall this was the most well put together page of the three listed in this post and I will be striving to make something very similar when designing my own storybook.