Bright, engaging, quirky, unusual. Also informative.
Fanelli uses humour to engage children to her work.
The Guardian describes her work as a "breath of fresh air". The medium of collage is not used a lot - even in children's books, etc. - so I think it is unusual enough to grab their attention.
From The Guardian:
Everything in Fanelli's collages has had a previous life. Sweet papers are crinkled and torn, newsprint is yellowed: every mark, every stain has its own story to tell.
Fanelli's favoured medium is collage, which she has developed in a very personal way. She took it up not just as a way of moving on from the flat colours she'd always used in her paintings, but also to make use of a vast collection of bits and pieces
I was inspired by Fanelli's use of collage. I think it adds something extra to her work, an extra story of where the materials could have come from. The stylized, textured visual language is almost child-like and children really love it.
References:
http://www.sarafanelli.com/
http://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/gallery/2011/mar/31/childrens-books-7-and-under
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