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Thinking sheet · Art and artists
Questions for an Illustrator
What would you ask the person who draws the pictures in books? Plan your questions and guess the answers.
- Grades
- 1–5
- Time
- about 20 minutes
- Topic
- Art and artists
- Kids practice
- asking good questions, learning about careers, predicting
What kids do
“Pretend you’re interviewing the person who drew your favorite book. What would you ask?”
- My interview questions
- Draw the illustrator at work
- A tip I think they would give me:
How to run it
- Read a picture book and look closely at the pictures first.
- Good questions start with how or why.
- Some authors answer letters. You could send one!
Talk about it
- Which question are you most curious about?
- What tools do you think illustrators use?
- Could you be an illustrator?
Take it further
Make a short picture book and be the illustrator yourself.
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