After in depth research about The Wizard of Oz, I decided I wanted to give the reader the same journey as Dorothy visually through textures, typography and colours, and create the emotions that she would’ve felt as well. The contents page highlights the chapters that I have aimed to make stand out in the book. The imagery shown through the typography at the start wasn’t too expressive to magnify the fact that everything is boring and plain in her home. When the whirlwinds from the cyclone begin to appear the typography begins to get more suggestive that something is going to happen soon.

The pages continue with the bright and intense colours throughout her time in the Land of Oz, and this is to suggest the happiness in the new place and show the drastic difference from her home. I experimented with yellow, green and red because yellow gives the connotations of warmth and happiness. Green is to portray them being out in nature and it is also a very optimistic and calming colour. Red was chosen for the dangerous part of the journey to show danger and aggression. These are the emotions in which Baum was trying to hide from the reader, but I have chosen to bring them to light visually.

I wanted the book to have cyclical pages which is why the same typographic image of the cyclone at the start is used again at the end, and then we return to her dull home using black and white again, however this time there is a hint of colour with the yellow because Dorothy realises that there is no place like home and is therefore she is happy to be back.