1. Create a children’s picture book, either a counting or an alphabet book2. Let your imagination go!!!!
3. Build the book around a distinctive theme
a. The theme must be approved before you begin
b. This is to ensure that only one person is working on a particular theme
c. As soon as you know what your theme is, let me know so that I can
“lock it!”
Some Theme Ideas:
• the supermarket (A =aisle, B = Bakery)
• North Carolina (B= Biltmore House, D= Dukies, M= Michael Jordan)
• famous children’s authors (B= Beatrix Potter)
• a foreign language alphabet (well, you can practice your French or Spanish!)
• a historical event
• endangered species
• an ethnic group or culture
• environmental issues
• a holiday alphabet
• a ghostly alphabet
• a mystery alphabet
• comic book or classical children’s fairy tale characters
• a non-sense book (make up new words)

4. Use an appropriate method to create the book
a. You are not expected to produce a book that looks like it was professionally printed.
b. All methods are available to you: artistic (like drawing, etc.), collage, cut and paste (either from print sources or from the Internet)
5. The book must be completed by the due date (see the online schedule)
6. Along with the book, you must present the answers to the following:
i. An introduction that describes your choice of topic (what you chose and why)
ii. An explanation of the choices you made in illustrating the book
1. What were you trying to accomplish with the illustrations.
2. How the process of creating the illustrations worked out for you (easy, difficult, etc.)