Making Books - Book Chapter (2016) and Article (2017)

<i>Making Books: Character Design and Narrative in Illustration </i>is a collection of critical and creative work investigating frameworks for practice-based research and their applications to children’s picturebook illustration, focusing in particular on the processes involved as they apply to the creation of character and narrative, using a design-based approach to constructing books. <br><br>This item contains the recently published book chapter 'Shaping pictures: picturebook narrative from an illustrator’s perspective', <i>Narration Transdisziplinäre Wege zur Kunstdidaktik,</i> Kopaed, Munich, 2016; and recently publisher article, 'Creation as a method of enquiry: Reflections on practice-based research in children’s picturebook illustration' published in the Journal of Illustration, November, 2017 and<br>Workshops exploring this theme were presented at the 22nd Annual IBBY UK conference in 2015 and at a workshop on Pictures and Narrative in Liestal, Switzerland, 2014. As part of our outreach programme, over 2,000 children have made books at children’s book-making workshops since 2015, in collaboration with arts festivals and organisations in the South West and Ireland. Children’s explorations of making their own books were presented at the iJade conference: Art and Design as Agents for Change, Dublin, 2017. <br>___________<br>Source 1: <br><b>Little, L (2016) 'Shaping pictures: picturebook narrative from an illustrator's perspective.' In: Lieber, G and Uhlig, B, eds. <i>Narration Transdisziplinäre Wege zur Kunstdidaktik</i>. Kopaed, Munich, pp. 235-248. ISBN 9783867361453</b><br><br>Source 2: <br><b>Little, L (2017) 'Creation as a method of enquiry: reflections on practice-based research in children’s picturebook illustration.' <i>Journal of Illustration</i>, 4 (2). pp. 173-185. ISSN 2052-0204</b><br><br>