ethical and moral consideration

I read a magazine about the different morals for creating children’s books. The first is that you must illustrate each book appropriately. They need to reach the targeted audience. Otherwise, that child won’t want to read it, and they likely won’t understand it. Secondly, no vulgar text, violence, sex or nudity is allowed. Children may find this very upsetting. Even if they don’t, they shouldn’t be exposed to such adult content at such a young age. Thirdly, children have a low attention span, so the illustrations need to be bold, attention-grabbing, and easy to understand.
The next point I want to add is the importance of ‘show and don’t tell’ as a children’s illustrator, you can add more to the story without words. Relating to this, children’s illustrators need to match the age range visually. You cannot illustrate for 14-year-olds if the book you have been given is meant for 8-year-olds. You must be aware of what appeals to that age range.

Another thing that’s very important in children’s books is diversity. This helps children feel that they have a valid place in this world. It teaches self-love and belonging. But there’s not enough of this.

The production of children’s books can be very wasteful. How? The materials used can be very toxic and harmful to people and the environment. Cobalt and Certain lead-based paints have been banned due to EU regulations. Another bad thing about book production is that carbon is released as they are manipulated. And the mass number of trees cut to create illustrated books is astronomical. This is why illustrators need to be more environmentally concerned. For example, ‘charity waste free Oceans’ has created an environmentally friendly children’s book that’s produced only from recycled ocean plastic. More artists are starting to create books from recycled materials.