From: Monica R. Edinger <edinger>
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 09:34:01 -0400

I can't remember if this has already been discussed, but I'm interested in how the illustrators of creative nonfiction picture books do their work. I'm thinking of Beth Krommes illustrations for Jackie Briggs Martin's book, The Lamp, the Ice, and the Boat Called Fish, Mary Azarian's for Snowflake Bentley (also by Jackie Briggs Martin), and James Rumford's Traveling Man. All three are beautiful and the illustrators clearly did careful research.

One reason for my interest is that I have my students do illustrations galore during our study of the Pilgrims. We use various secondary sources that are based on primary sources such as Connie and Peter Roop's Pilgrim Voices which is carefully illustrated by Shelley Pritchett.

We've been focused more on text than on illustrations, I think, during this discussion thus far so I'm curious if anyone has anything to say about the illustrations of creative nonfiction.

Monica

Monica Edinger The Dalton School New York NY edinger at dalton.org monicaedinger at yahoo.com
Received on Mon 22 Apr 2002 08:34:01 AM CDT