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When I feel I can take the ideas and visuals no further in this way, I start to work on the collages themselves, concentrating now mostly on colour and texture, though still refining and developing ideas as I go. Australian Wilderness Society Fiction Award for Children’s Books 2001 Govern Award for Children’s Science Picture Books, USA Winner 2003 Are any of the characters or objects connected with each other through colour choice? Are different characters associated with different colours?

Use stop-motion animation to show the changing landscape (as seen through a window) over a period of years. The AusVELS standard which will beincorporated as part of the learning opportunity comes from level 4 as part ofthe ‘exploring and responding’ strand, and is ‘students use art language todescribe and discuss the communication of ideas, feelings and purpose in otherpeople’s arts works’ (VCAA, 2012). By the end of the learning opportunity, studentswill have achieved the following learning objectives: Australian Children’s Book Council Picture Book of the Year Honour Book 1988 Young Australian’s Best Book Award Picture Books 1988 Earthworm Book Award Friends of the Earth UK 1988 Boston Globe Horn Book Magazine Honour Book Award 1990 International Board of Books for Young people Honour Book Award 1990 Austrian Children’s Book Council Honour Book award 1996 Australian Film Institute award for Best Australian Animated Film 1988 Greater Union Yoram Gross Award for Best Australian Animated Film 1988 An interesting feature of the book is that Baker doesn't use any words at all, leaving the pictures alone to tell the story. This, I think, makes it a great book to look at with children, in groups or individually, to see what they think is happening. It would be really interesting to see how different children interpret the illustrations differently.In this learning opportunity, students will focus on the particular artelements of shape, texture and colour, expanding their knowledge of these elements. Students will be introduced to the picture book by Jeannie Bakercalled Mirror, which shows the comparison of two boys and theirfamilies, one in Sydney and the other in Morocco. Students will be able toapply their knowledge of the particular elements through focusing on specificillustrations that exist in Mirror as well as their ownartwork created in the previous lesson. I suggested that rather than describing Window as a narrative, a better description for the book would be as a picture poem. There is an author’s note at the end, even though this story is fictional, about how wilderness is disappearing and how humans are impacting the planet. Her books would be good adjunct material to lessons on ecology and sustainability. The note has a tinge of hope, though I found it sobering, although not as depressing as the story itself. Choose a picture and make a list of nouns that are used to describe the people, places and objects in the scene. It may not be stretching things too far to suggest that Jeannie Baker believes she can change the world through her work. Perhaps that’s what motivates most great artists.

In a sense, listening to information like that is something that everyone, I think, feels disturbed by, but it’s easy to think, ‘I don’t play a part in this.’ I’m trying to show exponential change, which is a concept many adults find difficult to understand, in a simplified way so that it can be understood. All the changes in the book have a pattern – all the natural things like birds, animals, trees, decrease exponentially alongside the manmade changes.’ Indicator: represent changes over time in the local/broader community, eg organise and label significant The materials and techniques I use vary from one project to another. I enjoy the continual challenges this medium gives me to invent techniques and explore and experiment with materials and their textures.

Kiddle encyclopedia articles are based on selected content and facts from Wikipedia, edited or rewritten for children. Sam, now a young man, gets married, has a child of his own and moves to the country. Now father and baby look through a window in their new home. The view again is of a wilderness, but in a cleared patch of forest across a dirt road a prophetic sign reads, ‘House Not quite sure what the boy was aiming at with the slingshot but I didn’t much like that picture. However, overall, the collage illustrations are outstanding. And there’s a cat! Draw another view from the same window before the first image in the book and / or after the last image in the book.

While Home focuses on urban renewal - this book examines the transformation from relative wilderness to a major town. The required resources are: Windowby Jeannie Baker, ‘The Artistic Work of Jeannie Baker’ worksheet, pencils; greylead and coloured, crayons, textas, etc. The Canberra Times , 14 August 2004 ; (p. 6 ) Abstract Jeannie Baker uses intricate collages to portray her message of environmental conservation in her picture books for children. Cover Book : Window by Jeannie Baker Kevin Steinberger, Retell the story from the point of view of Sam’s cat. How does it feel about the changes in the local area?

polished or smooth surface (e.g. of polished metal or silvered glass) that forms images by reflection.