What Do Illustrators Do?

How can two artists find different ways to illustrate the same story?

What materials -- paper, pens, crayons, markers -- would be best for the book?

How can an illustrator draw a mile-high beanstalk on a ten-inch page?

In this delightful companion to What Do Authors Do?, author/illustrator Eileen Chrstelow employs her relaxed style and trademark humor to show an illustrator develops the pictures from rough sketches to finished artwork.

By following two artists as they illustrate different version of "Jack and the Beanstalk," Christelow reveals that the uniqueness of each book depends on many creative choices . . . And a lot painstaking work.
                                                                                                           -- Inside Front Cover Flap

Reading level: Ages 4-8
Paperback: 40 pages
Publisher: Sandpiper (December 17, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0618874232
ISBN-13: 978-0618874231