Window

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Look at each illustration and describe how the use of colour changes throughout the story. Why is this? The intendedparticipants for this learning experience will be primary schoolchildren who are in the year level of grade 3 and 4. Stunning and unique mixed media collages will amaze readers in this powerful, eco-conscious picture book. I used this picture book during my sequence of English lessons on 'Rainforests'. I focused on this book during my starter activity in which I gave each table a different picture from the book.

The resource guide contains two articles: 'In the Dreamtime : Attitudes to Land in Aboriginal Australia' by Christopher John Kirkbright and 'Learning the Country : The Impact of Europeans' by John Vandenbeld. y Belonging Jeannie Baker The intended participants for thislearning experience will be primary school children who are in the year level ofgrades 3 and 4. Where the Forest Meets the Sea (10-minute, 35mm animated film, produced by Screen Australia, directed by Baker)Draw what that view might have looked like ten years ago and how it might look ten more years in the future.

Window, a wordless picture book, is incredibly effective at communicating its message to readers without the need for text alongside the collage constructions.

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Refer to the discussion about the definition for ‘mirror’ you had before reading the book. Now that you have read the book, does the title help you understand what the author wanted to say about the book? Art and Design – materials While Home focuses on urban renewal - this book examines the transformation from relative wilderness to a major town. When I began this book, by a conservative estimate we were losing one species every hour. Two years later, by the time I’d finished the book, we were losing two species every hour. The projected rate, if we continue exponentially changing the world, is by the year 2000 we’ll be losing ten species an hour!’

Indie Award Best Children's Book 2017 Riverby Award Natural History Writing for Children 2017 Young Australians Best Book Award for Picture Books Shortlisted 2017 Kids Own Australian Literature Award for Picture Books Shortlisted 2017 Wilderness Society Award for Children's Picture Books Shortlisted 2017 Australian Book Industry Book of the Year for Younger Children Shortlisted 2017 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. Works are held in permanent collections of The Powerhouse Museum (Sydney), National Library of Australia (Canberra), Queensland Art Gallery (Brisbane), State Library of New South Wales, State Library of Victoria and Art Gallery Western Australia (Perth) That’s a really nice way of expressing it. In a sense, it is a narrative, but the viewer finds their own narrative. One person said to me it was about how the average male is conditioned to dominate and control the world! It had never occurred to me, but that was the narrative she saw in it.’ Retell the story from the point of view of Sam’s cat. How does it feel about the changes in the local area?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 Progressing scenes with a sad message. Upon closely studying each collage I became more and more impressed. I can't begin to know how long each took to construct. This wordless picturebook has a powerful (and quite depressing) message, as summarized in the author's note at the end of the book: "We are changing the face of our world at an alarming and an increasing pace." Sydney: Royal Botanic Gardens, (Sydney, N.S.W.), 1991 Z998034 1991 anthology criticism Abstract From May 1991- August 1992 an exhibtion on Jeannie Baker's picture book Windows travelled to seven Australian cities and towns. The exhibition of fourteen collages was accompanied at all venues by this resource guide and a picture book of the collages published by Julia MacRae books. I suggested that rather than describing Window as a narrative, a better description for the book would be as a picture poem.

With some projects I produce additional artwork where my concept for the exhibition needs it and I don’t necessarily exhibit every piece of book artwork.The most important children’s books combine entertainment and enjoyability with a more meaningful message; educating children not only in terms of literacy, but about the world around them. 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.