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Shapes
Torn paper collages and simple, rhyming text portray children exploring shapes, from painted squares of paper to a box with a surprise inside.
24 pages, Paperback
First published June 15, 2015
About the author
Paula Knight
35 books35 followersPaula is an author, illustrator and comics creator. She has illustrated numerous books for children and written three children's picture books as author. She's been a professional freelance illustrator since 1992.
Her first graphic memoir, The Facts of Life, (for adults) is published by Myriad Editions (UK) and Penn State University Press (N America). It's about the pressures on women to have children and what happens when life doesn't go to plan. An extract of it was shortlisted in Myriad's inaugural First Graphic Novel Competition in 2012. Judges included Ian Rankin, Bryan Talbot, Hannah Berry and Steve Bell.
"Intensely moving… honest and personal. It is a story told in pictures with sparse words about fertility, about loss, about growth. Of expectations - both personal and those from friends, family and society. It is about grief and pain and love. I wish I could think of a less trite way of saying this, but it makes you feel less alone."
Victoria MacDonald, Health and Social Care Correspondent, Channel 4 News
"Funny, poignant and philosophical, this elegant graphic novel challenges cultural pronatalism and examines the experience of living with a chronic, yet poorly understood, illness. I learnt a lot from this visually sophisticated and tremendously informative work, which is a must-read for anyone interested in reproductive politics." -Ian Williams, co-founder, Graphic Medicine
Paula's interests include wildlife, especially of the feathered variety. She pleads with them to prefer her garden, but local felines have other ideas. Her love of nature often inspires her writing, especially her own tiny woodland of oaklings. She dabbles in photography and considers herself an enthusiastic amateur.
Instagram: @paulajkstudio (illustration) @paulajknight (photos)
Her first graphic memoir, The Facts of Life, (for adults) is published by Myriad Editions (UK) and Penn State University Press (N America). It's about the pressures on women to have children and what happens when life doesn't go to plan. An extract of it was shortlisted in Myriad's inaugural First Graphic Novel Competition in 2012. Judges included Ian Rankin, Bryan Talbot, Hannah Berry and Steve Bell.
"Intensely moving… honest and personal. It is a story told in pictures with sparse words about fertility, about loss, about growth. Of expectations - both personal and those from friends, family and society. It is about grief and pain and love. I wish I could think of a less trite way of saying this, but it makes you feel less alone."
Victoria MacDonald, Health and Social Care Correspondent, Channel 4 News
"Funny, poignant and philosophical, this elegant graphic novel challenges cultural pronatalism and examines the experience of living with a chronic, yet poorly understood, illness. I learnt a lot from this visually sophisticated and tremendously informative work, which is a must-read for anyone interested in reproductive politics." -Ian Williams, co-founder, Graphic Medicine
Paula's interests include wildlife, especially of the feathered variety. She pleads with them to prefer her garden, but local felines have other ideas. Her love of nature often inspires her writing, especially her own tiny woodland of oaklings. She dabbles in photography and considers herself an enthusiastic amateur.
Instagram: @paulajkstudio (illustration) @paulajknight (photos)
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January 7, 2016
This is a cute book made up of a series of poems all having to do with shape in some way, except for the one on stripes. The illustrations are simple but cute and fit the poems. There is a list at the end of the book with 28 words that fit the theme and are in the book. A cute book to teach about shapes (2 and 3 dimensional) concepts and to work with beginning readers. This is a series of books (Patchwork) that teaches a variety of concepts and vocabulary.
Thanks to Netgalley and Norwood House Press for the opportunity to read and review this book.
Thanks to Netgalley and Norwood House Press for the opportunity to read and review this book.
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