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 Illustrated books are children’s book for a higher reading level, and there is more text than images in these types of books. Often, the text will not be part of the image itself, as the images work more to complement the descriptions presented in the main content. There is more text than images within the book.   Illustrated books are children’s book for a higher reading level, and there is more text than images in these types of books. Often, the text will not be part of the image itself, as the images work more to complement the descriptions presented in the main content. There is more text than images within the book.  
  
-If the book you are working on is text heavy with complementary images, then you just need to add Alt-Text. The rest of the book can be formatted as you would a standard etext book. For the most part the same standards for Alt-Text apply to these types of images, but there are some additional points you should keep in mind as you describe the image: You should make sure that the words you choose are at the same reading level as the book. Reading text around the image can help you find this tone and inform your description. Also remember that, with children’s illustrations, the image is often already described in the text. In this case, you can take that same language from the text and describe only what you see in the image you are describing.  If you find the image is already fully described in the text, just write a basic description so that the image is described but not repetitive.+If the book you are working on is text heavy with complementary images, then you just need to add Alt-Text. The rest of the book can be formatted as you would a standard etext book. For the most part the same standards for Alt-Text apply to these types of images, but there are some additional points you should keep in mind as you describe the image: 
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 +  * Make sure that the words you choose are at the same reading level as the book. 
 +  * Reading text around the image can help you find this tone and inform your description.  
 +  * With children’s illustrations, the image is often already described in the text. In this case, you can take that same language from the text and describe only what you see in the image you are describing. 
 +  * If you find the image is already fully described in the text, just write a basic description so that the image has Alt-text, but is not repetitive in description. 
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 +<note>All images must have Alt-text.</note>
  
 For more information about formatting and book sections please see below. For more information about formatting and book sections please see below.
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 +====Q&A====
 +Q: What do I do if there aren't any page numbers in a kid's book? The wiki says to make sure my page numbers that I'm using for page headings match up with the book. I'm working on Birdsong and I'm using Calibre to view it and don't see any page numbers.
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 +A: I opened this up in my Kindle reader to check if this was an issue with Calibre (.azw3 is a kindle file) and it still did not show numbers.  In this case just assign the headings in order of the pages they appear (i.e. the first page of the story is Page One and so on.)
  
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