My Storybook Favorites

Artful Bookshelf by Stacy Cross

• I chose Ghost Stories for the first storybook to explore. Just seeing the word ghost in the title was something that caught my eye. After reading the introduction, I realized that this is not just a collaboration of numerous ghost stories but also stories of multiple family’s experiences in this one home. I felt that maybe the title could have been more insinuating based on the stories.  The author really caught my attention when talking about his/her own ghostly experience and how it pushed him/her to delve deeper into the history of the home. For the overall design of the storybook, I felt as though it was a little basic and would have liked to see the pictures in between the words instead of at the end of the story. 
• For the second storybook I chose, it was Betraying Confidence. What initially drew me into reading the story was the short overview given on the browsing page and not the title. So far after reading the introduction, I feel as though the title doesn’t clearly display what the story is about. At the end of the introduction I am still left with not really understanding the scheme of the story. The only real drawing point that makes me want to read on is my curiosity of what is written inside the notebook and who wrote it. However, visually I do enjoy the layout of her blog and the main pictures which add to the dreariness of the storybook.
• For the last storybook I chose Lost in the Woods. The name is what really grabbed my attention on this storybook. After reading through the introduction, I felt like it was more of the actual story than that of an intro. I lost some interest in reading after being given each person’s description right away. I did enjoy the use of title names for each subsequent chapter and it would be a tool I would like to employ for my own. However, I did not really visually enjoy the layout of the storybook.