Go to Children as Authors . Invite an author, illustrator or librarian to school to share their thoughts and experiences with books. Contact a Sunshine Author. Talk about writing letters. Social Studies Children work on the senior project The Story of Books and refer to the book with the same title to find out about how books are made and how they have been written and made over time.
Children choose one author or illustrator to study in detail.
Read books such as Margaret Mahy or Joy Cowley Writes . Discuss the different processes for how the two authors write a story. At the end of their research, the children choose one of these authors and write a profile on one of them. Children go to Sunshine Author and Illustrator Profiles to find out about other authors and illustrators. Children make up covers or draw characters from the books that the authors or illustrators have done and present it as a mobile.