Circle - A travelling exhibition has been organised by Newcastle Museum in collaboration with Baker, which will follow the migratory path of the Godwits, visiting museums and galleries across Australia and the world The required resources are: Windowby Jeannie Baker, ‘The Artistic Work of Jeannie Baker’ worksheet, pencils; greylead and coloured, crayons, textas, etc. Australian Children’s Book Council Picture Book of the Year Honour Book 1988 Young Australian’s Best Book Award Picture Books 1988 Earthworm Book Award Friends of the Earth UK 1988 Boston Globe Horn Book Magazine Honour Book Award 1990 International Board of Books for Young people Honour Book Award 1990 Austrian Children’s Book Council Honour Book award 1996 Australian Film Institute award for Best Australian Animated Film 1988 Greater Union Yoram Gross Award for Best Australian Animated Film 1988 Yes, it’s a very simple concept, but once I really started thinking about it, it wasn’t so simple at all! Every tiny change that happened made me think about things. Even things that stay the same still change with age, and the population might increase, but the time is different at the beginning of the book to the end, so there are social changes – in people’s clothing, hairstyle, the sort of cars that people drive ….’

I personally like Home better than this wordless picture book since it is more hopeful. Of course on the other hand Window definitely realistically portrays what is happening with cities and the countryside. With some projects I produce additional artwork where my concept for the exhibition needs it and I don’t necessarily exhibit every piece of book artwork.

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Conference: the whole class discussion of particular elementsallows for the teacher to understand how well the student’s knowledge still is The intendedparticipants for this learning experience will be primary schoolchildren who are in the year level of grade 3 and 4. This is a similar book to Home by Jeannie Baker. They are both wordless books, and feature gorgeous collage illustrations.

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Create a timeline that shows the main events that have changed the landscape shown in each window scene. Draw another view from the same window before the first image in the book and / or after the last image in the book. Baker is the author-artist of a number of award-winning picture books. Among them is Where The Forest Meets the Sea (about the Daintree Rainforest), a Boston Globe-Horn Honour Book, and the recipient of an International Board of Books for Young People (IBBY) Honour Award and a Friends of the Earth Award in Great Britain. Window was shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal in Great Britain and both Window and Mirror won the Children’s Book Council of Australia Picture Book of the Year Award. Baker was the IBBY Australian nominee for the prestigious 2018 Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration.