Reading Multimodal Narrative

For this week's reading, My Favorite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris, I was immediately drawn to her style of illustration. The use of expressive color and line works shows her strong personality, she often uses black and whites, or a lot of blue and purple tones to illustrate stories, which also gives her book a feeling of creepiness. The monsters she drew are funny looking, the stories are mysterious and interesting. It makes me think of what would happen if these creatures actually lives among humans. But while the story is about monsters, the story is also about the main character's struggles with her own identity.

I also like the way the illustrator uses the format of drawing. The notebook paper makes it feel like we are actually reading off of a kid's book, from the story teller's point of view.

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