12.18.11
from the series
Women of Substance, Sacrifice and Prodigious Misfortune
Women of Substance, Sacrifice and Prodigious Misfortune
Sunday, December 11, 2011
Saturday, December 10, 2011
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Everything I Need To Know Before I'm Five
was chosen as a
Publishers Weekly Best Picture Books of 2011!
"Everything? Believe it. Fisher introduces readers to a wealth of concepts—numbers,
letters, colors, shapes, weather, and more—and does so using cleverly composed
photographic tableaus made up of vintage toys, knickknacks, thrift-store finds, and
other odds and ends. Thorough, fun, and as one-of-a-kind as the objects that fill its pages."
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Saturday, July 23, 2011
In a starred review Publisher's Weekly writes "Fisher gives preschoolers a leg up on need-to-know information in this energetic collection. In candy-colored multimedia collages, built with dollhouse-size toys and yard-sale bric-a-brac, she presents such topics as weather, seasons, and numbers up to 20. ... Considering all the titles on just one of these topics, these vintage/tacky photo-spreads are worth several books in one, even as they display the vast potential in rummage sales and vending machines."
And the Wall Street Journal adds "There's a faint haziness in Ms. Fisher's photographic style that gives her tableaux a sugared quality; you feel vaguely that you ought to be able to pluck the objects off the page and eat them."
Monday, July 4, 2011
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Thursday, May 19, 2011
EXQUISITE CORPSE
Over the winter, I did a reading of
at the Cornwall Library and afterwards did a collage workshop. I had a wonderfully talented and eager group of kids ages 3-13 (and a couple of equally talented and eager moms who could not resist the scissors and paper). Together we worked on a group of exquisite corpse. In case you're not familiar with exquisite corpse, let me explain... You begin with a piece of paper divided into 3 equal parts. At the very top third, the first person creates a head leaving off at the neck and then folds over the paper or securely covers (we used a piece of cardboard and LOTS of paperclips) their drawing, or in this case collage, so that the next person has no idea what the first person has created. The next person creates the torso of the figure leaving off at the hips in the middle third of the paper. Now both the head and the torso are securely covered and the third person creates the legs and feet in the bottom third of the paper.
When everyone is finished, the exquisite corpse is revealed!
The results were amazing and I had to share them.
Thank you Marina, Iris, Soledad, Ella, Micah, Abby, Elsie, Olive, Chiara, Sophie, Plum, Nicole, Emilie & Amy!
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