Brian’s Bird Book

Brian’s Bird Book

Brian's Bird Book

Helen Parramore

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Editorial:
AuthorHouse
Año de edición:
2009
Materia
Humor
ISBN:
9781449028862
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When my children were small we had a bird book to help learn the names of the birds lived around our house. My son Brian was five when he sat down one day with a yellow pad and made his own bird book. He couldn’t write, so he brought it to me and told me exactly what to write on each page of his book. I prized the book, and many years later I used his drawings as a guide for developing the illustrations in this book, and every word in this book is exactly what he told me to write in his original manuscript.To make the illustrations look like a child’s work, I had to use my left hand to make the drawings and write the text..

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