Creating Children's Stories

Overview

“In this lesson, I will talk about the importance of illustrations for the publication of a children's book, its function and how important it is to use "childhood glasses" to help select good illustrators for your project.”

In this video lesson Ilan Brenman addresses the topic: Wearing the Skeleton and Introducing It to the World, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creating Children's Stories. Delight young readers with stories inspired by their day-to-day life and awaken the writer within you.

Partial transcription of the video

“Dressing the Skeleton and Presenting it to the World In this lesson, we'll talk about illustrations. Our text is ready, but it's very important to think about illustrations. But what are illustrations? A children's book should have illustrations. I like the explanation of a theorist, a scholar from the Middle Ages called Paul Zumthor, who said that illustrations were the index to orality of a text. What does that mean? That scholar, when looking at old works from the Middle Ages, noticed that the illumination drawings, which were, the illustrations of those texts, often sacred texts, why we...”

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Course summary for: Creating Children's Stories

• Level: Beginner
• 99% positive reviews (1050)
• 27751 students
• 4 units
• 14 lessons (1h 59m)
• 5 downloads

• Category

  Writing

• Areas

  Children's Illustration, Children's Literature, Creating with Kids, Creative Writing, Fiction Writing, Narrative, Storytelling, Writing