Friday, January 14, 2011

Illustrating a Children's Book

Today we visit the Blood-Red Pencil where Dani Greer interviews artist, Sarah Ackerley, about illustrating the book. It's always interesting to get the behind-the-scenes story and see an artist's studio.


Welcome to Day 5 of the blog book tour for Your Fantastic Elastic Brain: Stretch It, Shape It by JoAnn Deak Ph.D. and illustrated by Sarah Ackerley. This innovative and timely picture book is a fun and engaging way to teach children that they have the ability to stretch and grow their own brains.


Grand Prize Drawing 1/31/2011
Before you leave here though, be sure to sign up for our special Grand Prize drawing by leaving a comment and your email address. You could win a collection of all the Little Pickle Press books in one of our gorgeous recycled Global-Green-Present bags! You may sign up once a day for more chances to win the entire library - all printed on recycled or tree-free paper with soy inks.

And if you simply cannot wait and want to buy the books, you can go to the website and order what you like, then enter coupon code BBTBRAIN at check-out for 20% off your entire order.

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7 comments:

Rebekah said...

These are gorgeous!

Thanks for the giveaway.

Rebekah(dot)montgomery(at)gmail(dot)com

Heather said...

Thank you for the chance!

sweetpeasandsassafras at yahoo dot com

Readerwoman said...

Sounds delightful - here's my entry!
readerwoman (at) gmail (dot) com

Donna B. Russell said...

What an interesting, informative interview! Sarah did a wonderful job of explaining her process from inspiration to completed illustrations.

Thanks for conducting the tour, Dani, and for the opportunity to win these gorgeous books. (BTW, am curious about how paper can be made from stone.) -- creativemuse1 (at) aol (dot) com

Dani Greer said...

It's made of calcium carbonate (a common and plentiful mineral widely used in industry) and the tour stop tomorrow touches on that.

Mason Canyon said...

It was fun to learn about the illustrations in the book.

Mason
Thoughts in Progress

pamalot said...

open books, open minds

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