Description
Where does the story start? Marie-Louise Gay explains the creative process with typical fun and whimsy.
Many children want to know where stories come from and how a book is made. Marie-Louise Gay’s new picture book provides them with some delightfully inspiring answers in a fictional encounter between an author and some very curious children, who collaborate on writing and illustrating a story.
Marie-Louise has scribbled, sketched, scrawled, doodled, penciled, collaged and painted the words and pictures of a story-within-a-story that show how brilliant ideas creep up on you when you least expect it and how words sometimes float out of nowhere asking to be written.
Any Questions? presents a world inhabited by lost polar bears, soaring pterodactyls, talking trees and spotted snails, with cameo appearances by some of Marie-Louise’s favorite characters — a world where kids can become part of the story and let their imaginations run wild… and just maybe they will be inspired to create stories of their own.
At the end of the book, Marie-Louise provides answers to many of the questions children have asked her over the years, such as “Are you Stella?” “How did you learn to draw?” “Can your cat fly?” “How many books do you make in one day?”
Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.6
Acknowledge differences in the points of view of characters, including by speaking in a different voice for each character when reading dialogue aloud.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.1
Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
Author Bio
MARIE-LOUISE GAY est une autrice et illustratrice de renommée mondiale, reconnue pour ses livres « Stella et Sam » ainsi qu’Un million de questions!, Fern and Horn, Mustafa et Les trois frères.
MARIE-LOUISE GAY est une autrice et illustratrice de renommée mondiale, reconnue pour ses livres « Stella et Sam » ainsi qu’Un million de questions!, Fern and Horn, Mustafa et Les trois frères.
Prizes
- Vancouver Children's Roundtable Information Book AwardShort-listed 2015
- School Library Journal Best Books of the YearCommended 2014
- Kirkus Reviews Best Books of the YearCommended 2014
- Globe 100 Best BooksCommended 2014
- Cooperative Children's Book Center ChoicesCommended 2015
- Amelia Frances Howard‐Gibbon Illustrator’s AwardWinner 2015
- TD Canadian Children's Literature AwardShort-listed 2015
- Notable Children's Books in the Language ArtsCommended 2015
- Governor General's Literary Award for Children's IllustrationShort-listed 2014
- White RavensCommended 2015
- Quebec Writers' Federation Prize for Children’s and Young Adult LiteratureShort-listed 2014
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