While Home focuses on urban renewal - this book examines the transformation from relative wilderness to a major town. Now invite the children to read on in pairs and to think aloud themselves. Encourage them to speculate and ask questions as they read the spreads. Sentence starters such as those below will support this type of thinking:

Draw another view from the same window before the first image in the book and / or after the last image in the book. Baker provides the audience with the same viewpoint, a window, throughout the entire book. However, as the story progresses and time passes, the view that can be seen from the window gradually changes to show the consequences that occur over part of the boy's life. Changes that can be observed include building developments, a decrease in nature/ wildlife, deforestation, urbanisation and human population increase. The book ends with the boy, who is now grown up with his own child, stood at a new window with the view resembling the one at the very start of the book (and at the start of his childhood). Write a few sentences that describe each scene. Use these as narration when showing the pictures to an audience.

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Choose one of the images and create a plan view map showing the places that you can see through the window. Repeat this for a different image in the story. How are your maps similar / different? By the end of the learning opportunity, studentswill have achieved the following learning objectives:

Children’s Book Council of Australia Picture Book of the Year Award 1992 Young Australian’s Best Book Award Picture Books 1992 Kate Greenaway medal UK Shortlisted 1992 Notable Book in the Field of Social Science USA 1992 The materials and techniques I use vary from one project to another. I enjoy the continual challenges this medium gives me to invent techniques and explore and experiment with materials and their textures. Presentation of analysis: Students willgather together, where one by one, each pair will go up to the front of thegroup, display their particular illustrations that they had to focus on,including from Mirror and the dream view collage. They will then giveexamples of how both Jeannie Baker and the student incorporated the particularelements of shape, colour and/or texture into the artworks. When I began this book, by a conservative estimate we were losing one species every hour. Two years later, by the time I’d finished the book, we were losing two species every hour. The projected rate, if we continue exponentially changing the world, is by the year 2000 we’ll be losing ten species an hour!’ That’s a really nice way of expressing it. In a sense, it is a narrative, but the viewer finds their own narrative. One person said to me it was about how the average male is conditioned to dominate and control the world! It had never occurred to me, but that was the narrative she saw in it.’

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Baker is the author-artist of a number of award-winning picture books. Among them is Where The Forest Meets the Sea (about the Daintree Rainforest), a Boston Globe-Horn Honour Book, and the recipient of an International Board of Books for Young People (IBBY) Honour Award and a Friends of the Earth Award in Great Britain. Window was shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal in Great Britain and both Window and Mirror won the Children’s Book Council of Australia Picture Book of the Year Award. Baker was the IBBY Australian nominee for the prestigious 2018 Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration. Sam, now a young man, gets married, has a child of his own and moves to the country. Now father and baby look through a window in their new home. The view again is of a wilderness, but in a cleared patch of forest across a dirt road a prophetic sign reads, ‘House Stunning and unique mixed media collages will amaze readers in this powerful, eco-conscious picture book.

Yes, it’s a very simple concept, but once I really started thinking about it, it wasn’t so simple at all! Every tiny change that happened made me think about things. Even things that stay the same still change with age, and the population might increase, but the time is different at the beginning of the book to the end, so there are social changes – in people’s clothing, hairstyle, the sort of cars that people drive ….’ The intended participants for thislearning experience will be primary school children who are in the year level ofgrades 3 and 4. Create a timeline that shows the main events that have changed the landscape shown in each window scene. This is a wordless picture book that shows the world from the view of a window. It shows how things change around us all the time.Not quite sure what the boy was aiming at with the slingshot but I didn’t much like that picture. However, overall, the collage illustrations are outstanding. And there’s a cat! Students will have the opportunity to beintroduced to the artwork of Jeannie Baker, through exploring how she createsthe illustrations within her picture books. The focus will be on the story Window, by Jeannie Baker, which will lead to the students responding to the work of Jeannie and the story, Windowthrough the completion of a worksheet. How do the pictures appear to have been made? It isn’t always easy to tell with the different digital applications and printing processes that can be applied but encourage the children to look closely. Do the pictures look as though they are painted, drawn, collaged or created digitally? Refer to the section at the end where Jeannie Baker describes the process by which the images have been created. Use the medium of collage to create a spread depicting part of the children’s daily routine. Share these and notice the similarities as well as differences. As part of work in geography, you may want to choose a child from a different country and create a spread which depicts the same part of their day. Diary writing Correction: Teacher will correct each student’s ‘The ArtisticWork of Jeannie Baker’ worksheet. This will allow for a thorough assessment of Indicator: represent changes over time in the local/broader community, eg organise and label significant