Different Authors, Same Illustrator

• DOMAIN(S)

  Communication, Language, and Literacy (CLL)
• INDICATOR(S)

  CLL8.4e
• AGE GROUP(S)

  48-60 months

Choose two to three books illustrated by the same person. Select an illustrator with a distinctive style, such as Eric Carle or Lois Ehlert. Talk about the pictures in the books. How are they made? Look at some of Julie Vivas's books, such as Our Granny by Margaret Wild and I Went Walking by Sue Williams. Talk about how the people look the same. Try out some of the illustrator's techniques. Look at Lois Ehlert'sPlanting a Rainbow, particularly the pages with examples of flower seed packets. Give the children brightly colored paper, stencils, hole punchers, scissors and glue and invite them to make collage flowers for a flower garden mural. This can be done in small group.  

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