Writing with Pictures
How to Write and Illustrate Children's Books
By Uri Shulevitz
(Watson-Guptill, Paperback, 9780823059355, 272pp.)
Publication Date: May 1, 1997
Categories: Composition & Creative Writing - Children's Literature, General
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- Telling the Story
- Picture Book or Story Book?
- Picture Sequence
- The Story: A Complete Action
- Story Content
- Picture Book Characteristics
- Planning the Book
- Storyboard and Book Dummy
- Size, Scale, and Shape
- The Structure of a Printed Book
- Creating the Pictures
- The Purpose of Illustration
- Drawing Figures and Objects
- Visual References
- Picture Space and Composition
- Principles of Technique
- Style
- Preparing for Reproduction
- Printing Basics
- Color Preseparation
- Techniques for Reproduction
Uri Shulevitz has written and illustrated more than 30 children's books. In 1969 he received the Caldecott Medal for his illustrations in Arthur Ransome's retelling of The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship. In 1980 The Treasure, which he wrote and illustrated, was selected as a Caldecott Honor Book. Other children's books by Uri Shulevitz include One Monday Morning, The Magician, Rain Rain Rivers (winner of a bronze medal at the 1970 Leipzig International Book Exhibition), and Dawn (given the 1975 Christopher Awards and chosen as a 1976 Honor Book by the International Board on books for Young People). Uri Shulevitz has taught the writing and illustrating of children's books at the New School for Social Research in New York City. He has also directed a summer workshop at Hartwick College in Oneonta, New York.
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