From “Squirm”…to Hand-made Books! 🐼
Hey again, y’all! In DA’s LA class, at the start of the year we read the book Squirm by Carl Hiaasen. In the book, we read about the protagonist (Billy), who lives in Florida, but then heads to Montana to see his father. But, his father runs away to Florida, where Billy just was, to find him, and Billy finds him in the process. They stop poachers from killing endangered animals. We then, after we finished the book, started to research our OWN endangered animals we would soon do a big project on! (We didn’t know we would make a book yet.)
We first started on our animal research. I chose a giant panda (that’s why my book is on Black and White), and it was fun researching about one of the cutest animals in the jungle! Of course, we had to take notes. (NOOOOO!) After that, we used a template to start constructing our stories, and hiding little facts about our animals that we gathered in them.
Lastly, after a bunch of editing and trial and error, we printed our stories in the final copy form. We then worked with a woman named Peg Gignoux and started to handcraft our books! We used glue, construction paper, and paint to make our covers, backs, and the inside of the book. The inside was made entirely out of paper, and there was a mini scene into the animal’s habitat that we cut out. Mine allowed you to see the panda through a bamboo thicket. That way when you open it, you get a big scene of the animals habitat. Well, I guess that wraps it up. They put our books on display, and now I conclude this blog post.
