14 The Illustrated Adventures of Binky, Lucky and Cindy
Studio 1398
$17 / $8.50 for student groups
Illustrated books are a curious mixture of images on paper and images in the reader’s mind. But which comes first―the pictures or the words? Three experienced illustrators join an award-winning author to talk about the process and how to make stories come alive on the page. How does an illustrator choose that special moment in a story to illustrate? How does an author match the images in his or her mind with the imagination of the illustrator? Young readers will be intrigued to go behind the scenes and think about how pictures and words work together on the journey to becoming a book.
Suitable for grades 3 to 5
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The Illustrated Adventures of Binky, Lucky and Cindy
Illustrated books are a curious mixture of images on paper and images in the reader’s mind. But which comes first, the pictures or the words? Three experienced illustrators join an award-winning author to talk about the process and how to make stories come alive on the page. How does an illustrator choose that special moment to illustrate? How does an author match the images in his or her mind with the imagination of the illustrator? Young readers will be intrigued to go behind the scenes and think about how pictures and words work together on the journey to becoming a book.
Curriculum Connection:
• explore connections between images and words.
• create images using image-development strategies.
• create 2-D images.Activities:
1. Students choose a subject and write a short story about it.
2. Using the story, students illustrate the story separately in four to six panels using only pictures, like a comic strip with no words.
3. Have students exchange their illustrations with a classmate without disclosing the written story.
4. With their new sets of illustrations, students come up with their own story based on the pictures they have received.
5. Ask students to compare the original and alternate versions of the story.
6. Students can also exchange the short stories they write and have other classmates create their own version of illustrations for the story.
