OUIL501 - Vintage Ladybird Books

I have a small collection of vintage illustrated children's books, which I looked at for reference when thinking about how I should approach my book. The narrative of the Snakes book was exactly how I wanted mine to be, blunt and straight to the point, as I think, reading this as an adult, already has an element of humour to it. Most of the books had a similar style of illustration, using quite realistic looking drawings with a simple and realistic colour scheme, mainly because they are instructional books, however the Bedtime Rhymes book was quite different, the style was much brighter and more vivid colours and the drawing technique was much less true to life, focusing more on using block shapes and colours.