Daily Adventure Storybook

After finding out how Illustrator works and why it is that there is often an author and an illustrator I realized that although I really hoped I would be drawing the images for my book, time is just not on my side to illustrate and write in less than 2 months. It takes soo much practice and SKILL do illustrations in books and I never really appreciated them until I found out how much work goes into the process. But I not going to settle with a book of only writing and color. I know from personal experience that a children's book without interactive images in not a children's book. Looking about at August I have over 1000 pictures because I took pictures everyday. These pictures shouldn't go to waste because they documented my entire project. I also have over 40 pages of writing from the daily blog entries I did throughout the month. I also have around 2 hours worth of video. Then it dawned on me. Why should I discard of all that hard work and already accessible information? The bulk of my project was outline by my August adventure and writing a children's book on the emotions of animals in which only 4 pages out of 25 of the book would deal with the animals I actually interacted with would prove August to have been a waste. I would have to go and interact with many other animals and document on them before I could even start writing. I do not have enough time to go to create emotional bonds with other animals and then experiment with them and then write and book with illustrations.
I decided, and with great relief and satisfaction, that I am going to write a book on what I did in August. The book will be around 40 pages in length and every 2 page spread will be each day and its adventures in chronological order. It each day will read like a story of its own and contain photographs of that day. The photographs will be used as illustrations for the daily stories and the book will ideally look like a colorful childrens encyclopedia/journal. I decided the layout of the book after going to the library again and looking at children encyclopedias, dictionaries, fact books, illustrated diaries, and journals.
For the coming week I am going to try to find some books that I might want to emulate in style or layout. I am also going to start turning each day of my project into a story organizing them with their respective pictures.

The following pictures are some examples of the encyclopedias i came across. Since I want my book to read like a collection of stories, every page will have the same theme, but different styles. I also want there to me something that connects all the stories into one big message. That I could use some help on brainstorming. With these realizations though, I find my project moving quite smoothly and productively.