Making Books: Over 30 Practical Book-making Projects for Children

Lois Provost Turchetti is a professional children’s storyteller (in
English and Caribbean Creole), who also conducts educational workshops
in Toronto.

This book outlines projects the author worked on with children, and is
offered as an inspiration to teachers and parents. The stories—which
include fiction and nonfiction at a combination of skill levels in text,
sentence, and vocabulary—are grouped according to elementary
curriculum guidelines.

Accompanying each project are step-by-step instructions, illustrations,
lesson-planning ideas, basic proofreading and editing guidelines for
students, and a form for teacher evaluation. Ideas include pop-up story
or information books, diaries, poetry folders, brochures, cards, and
other three-dimensional book projects. Drawing on a natural link between
the autobiographical aspect of storymaking and the concrete symbols of
the bookmaking process, Making Books offers a way to connect storymaking
with imagemaking through free play in combining genres. Highly
recommended.