8 illustrators, 8 days, lots of stories...

www.fcbg.org.uk
reg charity no 268289

Established for over 40 years, the Federation is an umbrella organisation for local Children's Book Groups around the U.K. The Groups organise book-related activities for children in their localities, often with their local schools and libraries, bringing authors and illustrators to meetings and storytelling sessions. We produce a regular Newsletter and specialist booklists. We organise National Share-a-Story Month, National Non-Fiction Day, an Annual Conference , and we own and coordinate the Red House Children's Book Award.

 is a visual literacy project working with schools to enhance learning through the art of visual storytelling. 8 well known children's book illustrators will start 8 different stories and a number of schools will take it in turns spending a day creating their own next page to all the stories. There will be whole host of resource available on the website underlining how schools can take part with lesson plans on how to show the importance of visual storytelling. There will also be resources on the processes involved in creating a story and how you go about it.

• to introduce pupils to the art of visual storytelling
• to increase pupil’s appreciation of art within children’s books
• to increase pupil’s interaction with picture books
• to develop pupil’s confidence and vocabulary in responding to what they see
• to improve pupil's skills to interpret the visual information that they see and to formulate their impressions of meaning
• to recognise the differing styles of art and the processes involved in putting them together
• to use art as a vehicle for storytelling