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I suggested that rather than describing Window as a narrative, a better description for the book would be as a picture poem. I first work out my ideas in drawings, focusing on the work as a whole before developing the details. p. 27-35 ) From Eden to Suburbia : Perspectives on the Natural World in Children's Literature John Stephens,

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Bold, colourful and great fun, this simple and striking book is a humorous depiction of one baby's bathtime routine.Reading of Mirror: Teacher will read Mirror by Jeannie Baker to the class. Before beginning to read, teacherwill explain to the class I think this book had a major impact upon the children, emphasising the importance of protecting our rainforests and the impact of urbanisation. An interesting feature of the book is that Baker doesn't use any words at all, leaving the pictures alone to tell the story. This, I think, makes it a great book to look at with children, in groups or individually, to see what they think is happening. It would be really interesting to see how different children interpret the illustrations differently. Draw what that view might have looked like ten years ago and how it might look ten more years in the future.

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Write a few sentences that describe each scene. Use these as narration when showing the pictures to an audience.There are many potential uses for this book in a classroom and it could easily be engaged with across the curriculum. Draw attention to the way colour is used throughout the book by discussing some of the following questions: The Canberra Times , 14 August 2004 ; (p. 6 ) Abstract Jeannie Baker uses intricate collages to portray her message of environmental conservation in her picture books for children. Cover Book : Window by Jeannie Baker Kevin Steinberger,

Window – Jeannie Baker

How do the pictures appear to have been made? It isn’t always easy to tell with the different digital applications and printing processes that can be applied but encourage the children to look closely. Do the pictures look as though they are painted, drawn, collaged or created digitally? Refer to the section at the end where Jeannie Baker describes the process by which the images have been created. Use the medium of collage to create a spread depicting part of the children’s daily routine. Share these and notice the similarities as well as differences. As part of work in geography, you may want to choose a child from a different country and create a spread which depicts the same part of their day. Diary writing Window, a wordless picture book, is incredibly effective at communicating its message to readers without the need for text alongside the collage constructions. Choose a picture and make a list of nouns that are used to describe the people, places and objects in the scene. 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)Australian National Maritime Museum (Sydney) - 19 May – 31 July 2016 Newcastle Museum - 6 August – 30 October 2016 Canberra Museum & Gallery - 26 November – 19 February 2016/17 Royal Botanic Gardens of Victoria (Melbourne) - 15 March – 14 May 2017 Botanic Gardens of South Australia (Adelaide) - 5 June – 25 August 2017 Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (Hobart) - 7 September – 26 November 2017 Mt Coot-tha Botanic Gardens (Brisbane) - 11 December – 25 February 2017/18 Bundaberg Art Gallery - 7 March – 6 May 2018 Film Are any of the characters or objects connected with each other through colour choice? Are different characters associated with different colours? Baker provides the audience with the same viewpoint, a window, throughout the entire book. However, as the story progresses and time passes, the view that can be seen from the window gradually changes to show the consequences that occur over part of the boy's life. Changes that can be observed include building developments, a decrease in nature/ wildlife, deforestation, urbanisation and human population increase. The book ends with the boy, who is now grown up with his own child, stood at a new window with the view resembling the one at the very start of the book (and at the start of his childhood). Look at the use of perspective in each image. How do we know that objects are close / further away? The AusVELS standard that will be used as part of this learningopportunity is from the ‘exploring and responding’ strand in level 4, and is asfollows; ‘students comment on the exploration, development and presentation oftheir arts works, including the use of specific arts elements and techniques.They identify and describe key features of arts works from their own and othercultures’ (VCAA, 2012).

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Thank you for your kind words. I love it when teachers share ideas and yours is very original. I think I'll try it when the next opportunity arrives. All the best to you and your class. Hide replies Students will have the opportunity to beintroduced to the artwork of Jeannie Baker, through exploring how she createsthe illustrations within her picture books. The focus will be on the story Window, by Jeannie Baker, which will lead to the students responding to the work of Jeannie and the story, Windowthrough the completion of a worksheet. What different materials can be seen outside of the window? Why have the man-made objects been created using those materials? 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. 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."Children’s Book Council of Australia Picture Book of the Year Award 1992 Young Australian’s Best Book Award Picture Books 1992 Kate Greenaway medal UK Shortlisted 1992 Notable Book in the Field of Social Science USA 1992