Create your own childrens story within a particular genre. Your story could be completely original; it could be a revision of an old fairy tale. It can be a picture book, or a young adult story, but regardless of target age group, it must adhere to the conventions of that genre.  Think carefully about your book what do you want children to see, know, or understand?
You can use electronic resources to create a virtual book, or you can create an actual book. There are free websites that contain software you can use and websites with instructions for constructing a hard-copy book. See storyjumper.com, as well as Picture Book Maker at culturestreet.org. Also, iTunes offers Puppet Pals and Toontastic. There are a variety of other options to explore, as well.
Note: Resources such as storyjumper.com may require payment to download a PDF version of your completed book, but it is possible to share a link to your book for free. This can be accomplished by putting the respective link into a Word document, then uploading the Word document to this assignment submission.
There is no length requirement for this assignment, but the book should be thoughtful and well-developed.  Create a story for older children, there will be more writing and less images, and a suggested length is around 5 pages.
Creating the Book
The book itself should include three components:
A Preface Think of this as a place to state your intentions and your motivations. First, explain your choice of genre and how your story fits or challenges the conventions of that genre. What conventions did you follow, what did you reject, and why? Second, write about your intentions, what you would like to share with children, and why. What do you want them to know, see, or understand? Then, state how you think you conveyed these ideas. Explain your characters, your symbols, and your images. This is to assist you in being very deliberate about your message and how you convey it. You might write a draft of the preface before you write the story (just to focus your efforts), but it should be finished after the story. This will allow you to explain the characters (what qualities you want them to have), their actions (what you want them to learn, do, experience or understand), your images (realistic, fantasy, use of color, etc.), and any symbols youve used in the story. Remember to explain the images carefully. This preface is worth a fair amount, 50 of the total points, which allows you to compensate if you dont feel particularly effective in writing the story or creating/choosing the images.

The Images You can use images from other sources (credit them in the preface), or you can create your own. The most important aspect of the images is not how good they are (Im not grading on your artistic talents), but how they support your story. This should be explained clearly in your preface.