Activity 3
The work of illustrators is to embellish and sometimes create the story. There are several author illustrators e.g Jill Murphy, Shirley Hughes and other illustrators that have distinct and recognisable styles e.g Korky Paul, Quentin Blake.
Choose some of these well illustrated books to discuss the detail of the illustrations and what they can tell you about the characters that perhaps isn’t included in the text.
Ask pupils to write their own text to accompany the illustrations in a book without reading the story.
The second half of this activity could be to read the actual story and compare the two interpretations.
Discuss with the pupils whether they think the author / illustrator drew or wrote first.
A suggested text to use is one that has been used with groups of pupils across Europe ….
‘Where the Wild things are’ by Maurice Sendak
