Illustrating a Story

What do illustrators do FIRST?

• decide what the characters should look like

• makes a plan and decides which scenes they want to illustrate

• make a cover of the book

• change the story

How does the woman illustrator change Jack?

• She makes Jack a girl.
• She makes Jack a giant.
• She makes Jack very mean.
• She makes Jack very small.

How did the man illustrator use the cat?

• to show how the reader should draw cats
• to show how the cat liked beanstalks
• to show how the cat helped the bean stalk grow
• to show how the beanstalk grew bigger overtime

How do you learn what the word scale means?

• The man told the cat about it.
• The woman told her daughter about it.
• The dog and cat looked it up in the dictionary.
• The cat asked about it and the dog answered.

How does the woman illustrator figure out how to show her characters' feelings?

• She looks in a mirror to try different faces.
• She looks at pictures of her daughter.
• She uses ideas from another book.
• She gets an idea from the dog.

Why are there four pictures of Jacqueline's face on one page of the article?

• It is difficult to draw Jack as a girl

• The illustrator liked to draw Jaqueline

• They show how Jacqueline would look if the illustrator used different tools

• The man illustrator drew two of them, and the woman drew the other two

How do the cat and the dog help you?

• by illustrating the books

• by showing the reader pages 32

• by showing the reader how to do research

• by asking questions and giving the reader facts

What do the pictures in the article help the reader understand?

• that Jack was a little boy

• that illustrators are usually in the same family

• that pictures for the same story can look very different

• that children should not talk while their parents are working

What does the reader find out at the end of this article?

• what the covers of the books look like

• which book the publisher likes the best

• the cat and the dog drew the last picture

• the man and woman started new drawings

How do the pictures of the man and woman help the reader understand the information in the book?

• They show how each illustrator looked.

• They show which books needed illustrators.

• They show how authors and illustrators are alike.

• They show what each illustrator was thinking and doing.