Do You Know Steve Jenkins?

Our youngest writers have been learning about Steve Jenkins. He is a writer and an illustrator! This in turn, has inspired beautiful illustrations followed by wonderful stories! The students started their study by reading as many books as we could find written by Steve Jenkins. Then they found his website to watch how he creates his illustrations.

He starts by drawing his pictures and then fills in the pictures using fabric, paper with texture, or anything that would look like the real animal.

From these pictures students have spent time writing about them in their draft books. Below are a few example:

There will be more to come!