Book Making: Making choices about the paper.

We have been reading many different picture books over the last few weeks. We have begun to notice the different ways authors and illustrators create books.  We read the book ‘Andrew Drew and Drew by author and illustrator BARNEY SALTZBERG.

This is a story about a little boy who has a lead pencil and white paper. Andrew, the character in the story, loves to ‘doodle’ with a standard pencil. Andrew appears on the pages, using his imagination to draw and create on paper. Some pages are the same width as the cover, others narrower or wider, turning over or folding out to change a drawing’s meaning.

His abstract lines become a kite and then a rocket, or steps that turn into a dinosaur!

The students were invited to explore some of the different techniques Barney Saltzberg used to create his book.

  • What ideas could we use from Barney Saltzberg’s book?
  • How might this inspire our own book creations?
  • What imaginative stories could we create?

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