http://www.hbook.com/2012/06/authors-illustrators/2012-csk-illustrator-award-acceptance/ Publications about books for children and young adults Tue, 14 May 2013 13:27:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://www.hbook.com/2012/06/authors-illustrators/2012-csk-illustrator-award-acceptance/#comment-16453 Mary Anjali Fri, 29 Jun 2012 19:32:28 +0000 http://www.hbook.com/?p=14556#comment-16453 This would be a great book for my classroom as social studies launch to the 1800s, the abolition of slavery and the civil war. I truly was engrossed in the illustrations, the sketches and layering of the people to the background made it feel more alive. Their eyes have such pain and worry in the beginning and then when the sun shines through at the end, you can see their pain has been lifted. This is also a great story to have students write their own ending as a writing prompt to put themselves in the characters perspective. I too love to draw and had thought about teaching art at one point. Somewhere along the lines, I just stopped drawing these last years; after your statement about being in Japan and "Pick up the Pencil and Draw," your journey began again; gave me inspiration to start drawing more often. I will go find my black drawing book that I kept as a child. You are an inspiration to me, that its never to late to do what you truly love. This would be a great book for my classroom as social studies launch to the 1800s, the abolition of slavery and the civil war. I truly was engrossed in the illustrations, the sketches and layering of the people to the background made it feel more alive. Their eyes have such pain and worry in the beginning and then when the sun shines through at the end, you can see their pain has been lifted. This is also a great story to have students write their own ending as a writing prompt to put themselves in the characters perspective. I too love to draw and had thought about teaching art at one point. Somewhere along the lines, I just stopped drawing these last years; after your statement about being in Japan and “Pick up the Pencil and Draw,” your journey began again; gave me inspiration to start drawing more often. I will go find my black drawing book that I kept as a child. You are an inspiration to me, that its never to late to do what you truly love.

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