Theodore Taylor III The recipient of the 2014 John Steptoe Award for New Talent, Taylor's been working for years in graphic design, web design, photography and more, but it was last year's illustrations for Laban Carrick Hill's When the Beat Was Born: DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop that proved he's also one to
watch in picture book illustration.
Not exact matches
Watching a World War Two battle re-enactment of soldiers running across muddy wasteland and tanks firing
in to the night sky, paints a much clearer
picture than anything you can read from an exercise
book.
Picture the scene: the children have said
in no uncertain terms that they'd rather stay at home and
watch telly, read
books or play games on the tablet.
Time should definitely be spent talking up the changes ahead, reading good
books,
watching videos, and drawing
pictures (our current favorites
in this area are Baby on the Way by Sears, Sears and Kelly, Our Baby by Maier, I'm a Big Brother by Cole, Love the Baby by Layne, and the DVD Three Bears and a Baby by Sesame Street)
Let's take, for instance, the largely wordless
picture book Tuesday, by David Weisner,
in which frogs take flight on lily pads from a deserted - looking bog, and then proceed to make a surreal trip through a residential neighborhood (even stopping to
watch an old woman's TV while she sleeps
in front of it).
You can
watch a selection of
picture books available as read - alouds on the Story Box Library website, which are perfect for reading
in the lead up to Anzac Day, including their new release Anzac Biscuits, read by Tiffany Speight.
The meaning
in the title becomes clear
in the first pages of this
picture -
book biography: Goodall's passionate love of nature began
in early childhood, when she «
watched ALL the animals
in her world, big and small.»
Readers of his debut
picture book, Snowy Valentine, could easily believe this author / illustrator spends much of his time perched
in trees,
watching the daily lives of woodland creatures.
And honestly this whole concept just bothers me on a fundamental level, it's a
book, where there's only stuff
in it when you look at it's
picture on the TV via the EyeToy
watching it.
But like much of this
book, when you look at the bigger
picture, the hard data and aggregate numbers, you learn that «
watching television can be far more dangerous than riding around
in the truck - clogged streets of a major city.»