Making Books with Kids

25 Paper Projects to Fold, Sew, Paste, Pop, and Draw

Esther K. Smith, Jane Sanders, Dikko Faust

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01 March 2016

Book & paper crafts; Children's & Educational; Handicrafts (Children's&YA)

Series: Hands-On Family

Spread the joy and craft of books in your family with Making Books with Kids.

An inspiring collection of ideas and projects for encouraging an artistic spirit in children! Making Books with Kids features more than 25 creative, kid-friendly projects in design, illustration, paper decorating, binding techniques and more. Book artist and author Esther K. Smith offers an exciting resource of easy-to-follow instructions supported throughout with step-by-step, full-colour photographs and illustrations. Each sequence is accompanied by finished samples and variations as well as the inspiring work of a prominent book artist.

Whether you use these projects independently or as a curriculum for hands-on, family-friendly, bookmaking experiences, you'll find that the lessons in this book are open-ended so they can be explored over and over-with different results each time! Colourful photos illustrate how different people using the same lesson will yield different results, exemplifying the way the lesson brings out each artist's personal style.

Making Books with Kids is the perfect book for creative families, friends, and community groups and works as lesson plans for both experienced and new art teachers. Children of all ages and experience levels can be guided by adults and will enjoy these engaging exercises. Spread the love of--and craft of--books in your family with Making Books with Kids.

By: Esther K. Smith
By (artist): Dikko Faust
Illustrated by: Jane Sanders
Imprint: QUARRY
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 216mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9781631590818
ISBN 10: 1631590812
Series: Hands-On Family
Pages: 144
Publication Date: 01 March 2016
Recommended Age: From 7 to 12 years
Audience: General/trade , Children/juvenile , ELT Advanced , English as a second language
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

ESTHER K. SMITH creates artists' books and limited editions at Purgatory Pie Press, collaborating with hand-typographer Dikko Faust and other artists and writers. Her work has been exhibited at such prestigious venues as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Victoria and Albert Museum (London), and is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Art, the Tate Gallery (London), the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), and the Whitney Museum. Esther teaches throughout the United States, Canada, and England, taught Artist Books to adults at Cooper Union for more than fifteen years, and has been a visiting artist working with children at the Museum of Arts and Design and the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. Esther is also the author of two books on book arts, How to Make Books (2007)and Magic Books & Paper Toys (2008), and contributed a foreword to Little Book of Book Making by Charlotte Rivers (August 2014), all published by Potter Craft/Random House. An active promoter who supports her titles with hands-on workshops, Esther is a fixture at the Brooklyn Book Festival (typically held in September), and has children's events scheduled at the independent bookstores WORD in Jersey City, New Jersey, and McNally Jackson Books in New York City.

Reviews for Making Books with Kids: 25 Paper Projects to Fold, Sew, Paste, Pop, and Draw

This is an Official Rave, a fan letter! Esther K. Smith's classic, How to Make Books, has been on my shelf since 2007. Simply put, it's one of the best in its category, book making. I predict that her newest, Making Books with Kids, will join the ranks at that same high level. - Judi Kauffman, Scrapbooking.com Magazine