Leon The Cow Analysis

This assignment involved the creation of a picture book in a pair. Max and I have strived to address the issue of the recent refugee crisis, through the use of various techniques in our picture book, Leon the Cow. The contrast of safety and peace between the refugee’s (in the book’s case Leon’s) home country and Australia’s was represented by the different colours of the text and the drawings. There was also a part of the story where the farmer handed Leon a sandwich, which was a reference to peace made between the farmer and Leon.

Max and I created this picture book in the hopes that the audience would not only engage in the book but to understand what the book was conveying and to have a knowledge of their luck to live in Australia. Throughout