This time of year it seems inevitable that I will end up searching for something new on Jan Brett’s website.
This year, I think I hit the jackpot!!!
She has a great video section. I downloaded the two videos for the Gingerbread Baby. One video shows how to draw a gingerbread baby, and in the other, she talks about the story and her illustrations and ends up telling the story.
I think my favorite part was how she explained the illustrations in the side bars of the page. She talked about how that allows her to add extra details to the story and to do some foreshadowing. She spent some time talking about giving her characters voice and making them seem real to the reader.
The videos are extremely well made. There are several to choose from. Most of them focus on how to draw the illustrations in her books. Her conversation while drawing is an added bonus!
Thank you for sharing this link. I am going to do something with it next week before my kids go home for break. Also later with my advanced reading kids before we do an author project (with technology of course!).