Illustrating Children's Picture Books

June 16-July 9, 2009 · Two class meetings per week · UW campus, Seattle

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Designed for aspiring and published illustrators and authors of children's 32-page picture books, this course explores the visual side of writing picture books through workshops, discussions, and critiques.

Working from an original story or re-told folktale, participants:

• Develop a complete 32-page book dummy and work toward the final art.

• Evaluate ways in which a manuscript can suggest visual scenes and how illustrations enhance the narrative qualities of a manuscript.

• Explore character details, word choice, visual research, pacing, art styles, media, point-of-view, and manuscript revision.

• Learn techniques for seamlessly integrating a story's words and pictures.

Illustrators and authors of children's chapter books are also welcome. This course complements the University of Washington Extension certificate program in Writing for Children.

Brenda Z. Guiberson

Guiberson is an award-winning author and illustrator who has created books of fiction and nonfiction for children. Her picture books such as Cactus Hotel, Spoonbill Swamp, Into the Sea and The Emperor Lays an Egg have won numerous literary and scientific awards. Guiberson's illustrated books include Mud City: A Flamingo Story, and several chapter books including Mummy Mysteries, an ALA Kid's Pick. Her novel, Turtle People, was a Junior Library Guild selection. Her newest book, Life in the Boreal Forest, illustrated by Gennady Spirin, is also a Junior Library Guild Selection. It will be available in Fall 2009.

Margaret Chodos-Irvine

Chodos-Irvine's illustrations for the picture book, BUZZ, received three starred reviews and was named both an American Booksellers Association Pick of the List and a Los Angeles Times Book Review Best Book of the Year. She wrote and illustrated Ella Sarah Gets Dressed, a Caldecott Honor winner. Other illustrated books include Apple Pie 4th of July, Hello, Arctic!, My House is Singing, and Hide and Seek.

Laura McGee Kvasnosky

An author and illustrator, Kvasnosky has published fourteen books for young readers, including Really Truly Bingo, the adventures of an imaginative little girl and her talking dog. Laura is also the author-illustrator of a popular series of books about two young fox sisters, Zelda and Ivy. Zelda and Ivy: The Runaways was honored with the American Library Association's Theodor Seuss Geisel Beginning Reader Award in 2007, and Zelda and Ivy Keeping Secrets is on its way in 2009.

UW campus, Seattle. Tuesdays and Thursdays, 6:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m., June 16-July 9, 2009; $549 + $35 nonrefundable registration fee; 2.4 CEUs. Instructor: Brenda Z. Guiberson

We are no longer accepting registrations for this summer workshop. The next workshop begins in summer of 2010. The following information regarding the registration process may be helpful as you plan for applying to the next program:

Course registration # 94154

• By telephone: Register using VISA or MasterCard by calling 206-897-8939 or 1-800-506-1325, Monday–Thursday, 8 a.m.–5 p.m., and Friday, 9 a.m–5 p.m.
  
  
• Online: Register online for course # 94154.
  
  
• By mail or fax: Print and mail or fax a registration form.
  
  
• In person:
  
  
  • UW Extension, University District, Seattle
    (Administrative offices for UW Educational Outreach)
    4311 - 11th Ave. NE (see map)

    Hours: Monday–Friday, 8 a.m.–5 p.m.

    Parking: Free visitor parking is available in the building garage (entrance on 11th Ave. NE), in stalls marked "UW Educational Outreach."