Dancing with Manatees by Faith McNulty5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() I also take a lot of pictures of my friends and family to help me get the right perspective or movement in the illustration that I want. I like to take my own pictures of animals whenever I can, but sometimes I have to use books or internet for my images. I think about the most important part of the story to illustrate, the design of each page and where to place the text.Īfter my rough story board I start gathering reference. I draw a very rough layout of each page of the story. I always start by brainstorming my ideas for the book on a story board. Her most recent books are Ocean waves & Other Tales and Play dates & Other Tales, by Helen H. ![]() She has illustrated When I lived with Bats and Playing with Dolphins, both written by Faith McNulty. Since then Lena has illustrated My First Book of Words, and numerous Hello Readers for Scholastic Inc., including the book Dancing with Manatees, that has sold over half a million copies. Her first book was Keeping a Christmas Secret written by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. When I was seven, I was given a book of Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales, and would spend hours creating my own pictures to the stories I read.” I can not remember when I didn’t draw or paint. “I grew up reading the wonderful books about Pippi Longstocking, The Children of Noisy Village and many other books by Swedish author Astrid Lindgren. Illustrator Lena Shiffman was born and raised in Sweden, a country rich in story-telling. ![]()
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