Authors Write; Illustrators Draw!

Lesson Plan - Get It!

Audio:

• Do you know what an author does?
• What about an illustrator?

Knowing what these two people do will help you think about a book and talk about it with other people.

^{Image by Matt Lemmon [editted with text], via flickr, is licensed under the CC BY-SA 2.0 license.}

• Did you hear what the man in the video said?

He said, "I'm Koji the illustrator."

• What does that mean?

Let's watch another video to find out.

Parts of a book from KinderTalks:

That video said a lot.

• What do we need to know?

The author writes the book.

The illustrator draws the pictures.

Sometimes the author and illustrator are the same person!

Other times, they are two different people.

Let's go to the Got It? section to practice!