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A powerful book ,Mirrorillustrates how our lives reflect each other and that we are all, even in some small way, connected. The projected rate, if we continue exponentially changing the world, is by the year 2000 we’ll be losing ten species an hour! Yes, it’s a very simple concept, but once I really started thinking about it, it wasn’t so simple at all! All content from Kiddle encyclopedia articles (including the article images and facts) can be freely used under Attribution-ShareAlike license, unless stated otherwise. In our occasional series of Quick Guides, we present some ideas for discussing children’s books that can be read and discussed at home or school.

They are part of many public art collections and have been exhibited in galleries in London, New York and throughout Australia. What I’m hoping is that readers will feel a responsibility, that the way each one of us lives our lives, counts.

Suggestions include drawing a scene of your own choice or drawing a scene that follows on from the story.

Yet with the journey of ahome-madeMoroccan carpet into the Australian boy’s home, we can see how these separatelives become intertwined.

The required resources are: Mirror by Jeannie Baker, art book, pencils, glue, whiteboard, whiteboard marker, coloured photocopies ofpages from Mirror, the collage of the dream view created in theprevious lesson: one between each pair, required activities to complete(checklist). A pity, 'Belonging' was lovely but this felt like being sledgehammered with a message and then hit again once you'd got up. Formerly a teacher (secondary and primary) and university lecturer, with over 40 years’ experience, Nikki is Director of Just Imagine. Page by page, we experience the lives of two little boys – one from an urban family in Sydney, Australia, the other from Morocco.

This discussion should be colour includingthe primary and secondary colours, complementary colours as well as warm andcool colours (National Gallery of Art, 2013).The American Library Association Notable Book 1984 Kate Greenaway Medal UK shortlisted 1985 Children’s book Council of Australia Picture Book of the Year Award Commended 1985 Young Australian’s Best Book Award Shortlisted 1986. Stunning and unique mixed media collages will amaze readers in this powerful, eco-conscious picture book by the internationally renowned Jeannie Baker. A lovely book that explores what happens to the world as it undergoes change in transport, energy and population without the use of words. The intendedparticipants for this learning experience will be primary schoolchildren who are in the year level of grade 3 and 4.

The last panel, showing the grown-up baby holding his newborn child as he looks through a different window at a pristine piece of bush set aside for a housing estate, brings the ‘story’ back to the beginning. This innovative picture book comprises two stories designed to be read simultaneously – one from the left, the other from the right.Window by Jeannie Baker is a picture book; its illustrations present the reader with the story of a boy and the view from his bedroom window of the landscape below. Beginning as a rural, unspoiled setting, the view gradually transforms into an urban, built up environment. 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.