GEN: Speaking of great websites?

[Susannah Richards <SusannahR@MAIL.COMMONGROUP.NET>]

>Have you found www.teachingbooks.net?  I love this site.  With
>hundreds of teaching guides for books, author video clips, links to
>all the award winners and many other book related pieces of
>information, it is an invaluable resource.
>
>It was here that I learned some great behind the scenes information
>about the development of  Caldecott Award Winner, The Three Pigs by
>David Wiesner.    David says in the movie: "There was a graphic idea
>that I wanted to play around with: What's behind the pictures in a
>book?   Here was the story about the three pigs. Great. I could draw
>that. But also they had a great reason to want to leave their story.
>Every time it gets read, two of them get eaten up.  How much fun can
>this be?  So that set in motion for me the real emotional
>undercurrent of the story, which was these characters who were
>looking for a place where they could belong. " David says that he
>wanted lots of white space in the book design -- so much that he
>actually had in an early dummy of the book "a page that was
>completely blank in which the characters, as they're flying around
>on their airplane, fly right out of the page, and it takes several
>pages for them to fly back into the picture.  I love the idea that
>they could just go off someplace where we couldn't actually see them
>and then sort of -- oh, here they are, over here.  You really have
>to kind of find them. I didn't in the end use the double-page blank
>spread for a variety of reasons.   The best part was that he said
>that some bookstore owners were tempted to return the book when they
>saw the blank pages.

Susannah Richards, Research Assistant
Neag Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development, University
of Connecticut
Storrs, CT
susannahr@commongroup.net

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