A brilliant, powerful, historical saga – a grand epic by a prize-winning children's author. The world of 14th-century America is unknown to most readers and Penina Spinka's remarkable novel brings it triumphantly alive, from the tribal wars through to the Norse invasions and the fiercely resisted Christianity.
It has been stated that human beings use roughly 10% of our brain capacity according to science. Given all of humanitys major technological and other space-age advances, you would surmise that we are a very powerful species with limitless potential and possibilities. However our digital marvels, havent kept mankind back from the edge of destruction. Or from barely holding on to a fragile thread of existence. Yet since the very beginning of recorded history, we have struggled with some of the most basic questions: Who are we? What are we? Where did we come from? Where are we headed after life and death? For centuries we have existed in a state of loss of identity. Not knowing who we really are, has generated endless scientific, cultural, racial and religious confusion. So where can we turn to overcome this endless confusion? The #1 Image Maker is a road map, a runway for takeoff, and a GPS to guide us to the ultimate and absolute questions in life and their answers. Why are we here? Why do we exist? And why do we have such intelligence, talents, and abilities that separate us from the rest of creation? Author Keith E. Echols delivers a powerful message for all of us, and he shows us how to recapture our lost and stolen identities and embrace The Image Makers purpose. His inspired wisdom is simple, yet profoundly clear to be unstoppable, live on purpose and with power.
What exists in the space between the words and the pictures? How do the stories unfold? What happens between the first sketch and finished picturebook? Twelve of the world's finest contemporary picturebook makers generously share their experiences, challenges, doubts, sketches, illustrations, and invaluable insights into their creation process. They reveal the complex and time-consuming work that happens behind the scenes, in service of their stories and their readers. An inspiring collection of picturebook knowledge for anyone interested in this unique and dynamic art form. The editor of the book is Sam McCullen, who runs the Picturebook Makers blog and the picturebook platform dPICTUS. PICTUREBOOK MAKERS reveals the picturebook's immense creative potential, and celebrates outstanding international picturebooks and their creators. Featuring Jon Klassen, Kitty Crowther, Beatrice Alemagna, Shaun Tan, Eva Lindström, Blexbolex, Chris Haughton, Suzy Lee, Bernardo P. Carvalho, Isol, Manuel Marsol, and Johanna Schaible.
This is a hands-on, user-friendly guide to writing and illustrating picture books for young children. Each chapter brings together informative exercises for writers and illustrators with intriguing insight into the world of the picture book maker. It offers critical scholarship in literacy, visual and textual studies, together with theories of creativity, illustration, creative writing and visual understanding in picture books.The book combines the art and images of the children 's picture book illustrator with the text and story of the picture book writer, highlighting the collaborative process involved in creating a picture book. While encouraging practitioners to reflect on their art and create new ideas and concepts, the book also offers an accessible framework for teachers to identify the intricacies of the picture book in an increasingly electronic market. The Picture Book Maker is essential reading for lecturers and students on BA and MA Illustration, Creative Writing and Design courses and will be indispensible to educators and students in primary education and for those studying writing and illustration of children 's books.
All things came to life through the Word of God. Genesis is God’s autobiography with the seal of perfection stamped upon every word contained within. The powerful Word of God put light in the darkness, land in the sea, and life on an uninhabited earth. Join Brian and Candice Simmons as they tell the fascinating story of human creation in The Image Maker, the first of three volumes that studies the book of Genesis, the first book of the Bible, in depth. Journey through the first eleven chapters and gain fresh insight from rich footnotes that include commentary, word studies, cross references, and alternate translations. You are God’s divine idea, and you were formed by his loving thoughts. Walk with him as he releases his glorious image into the universe.
"Michael and Connie grab you by the heart and catapult you onto what feels like an already begun roller coaster ride. This sensory banquet of tale spins, drenches and thrills as it careens its way to the next stage of this brand-new, age-old story. You arrive at ride's end breathlessly exhilarated, stunned and...profoundly grateful!" -Don Freeman ..".following Milton's lead...in the style of modern epic writers, Michael and Connie take the reader on a suspenseful journey. Once the pages of this story touched my hands, I could not let go." -Mark Foreman ..".the book is at its best when the author's use their creativity to integrate themes of science or to explore motives and other dimensions, adding richness to the world they've created and layers to our understanding of the true Story of stories." -Dr. Richard Olsen "This face-paced and thought-provoking tale is a thoroughly entertaining read!" -Leanne Hillary
One autumn day, a lion finds a wounded bird in his garden. With the departure of the bird's flock, the lion decides that it's up to him to care for the bird. He does and the two become fast friends. Nevertheless, the bird departs with his flock the following autumn. What will become of Lion and what will become of their friendship? Note: some pages in this book are intentionally blank to represent snow. Marianne Dubuc received her degree in graphic design from the University of Quebec, Montreal. She has created many different kinds of books for readers of all ages. She is an internationally acclaimed illustrator whose work has been published by major publishers in fifteen countries.
Talking dogs pitching ethnic food. Heart-tugging appeals for contributions. Recruitment calls for enlistment in the military. Tub-thumpers excoriating American society with over-the-top rhetoric. At every turn, Americans are exhorted to spend money, join organizations, rally to causes, or express outrage. Image Makers is a comprehensive analysis of modern advocacy-from commercials to public service ads to government propaganda-and its roots in advertising and public relations. Robert Jackall and Janice M. Hirota explore the fashioning of the apparatus of advocacy through the stories of two organizations, the Committee on Public Information, which sold the Great War to the American public, and the Advertising Council, which since the Second World War has been the main coordinator of public service advertising. They then turn to the career of William Bernbach, the adman's adman, who reinvented advertising and grappled creatively with the profound skepticism of a propaganda-weary midcentury public. Jackall and Hirota argue that the tools-in-trade and habits of mind of "image makers" have now migrated into every corner of modern society. Advocacy is now a vocation for many, and American society abounds as well with "technicians in moral outrage," including street-smart impresarios, feminist preachers, and bombastic talk-radio hosts. The apparatus and ethos of advocacy give rise to endlessly shifting patterns of conflicting representations and claims, and in their midst Image Makers offers a clear and spirited understanding of advocacy in contemporary society and the quandaries it generates.