Pascale Bougeault Visits IC

Pascale Bougeault Visits IC
Feb 28, 2002, 10:45am

Mme. Bougeault shares the mystery of how her work becomes a book with illustrations.

At the conclusion of a good book, a reader may have questions for the author or wish to know more about the development of characters and plot. Ras Beirut elementary students had that opportunity when French author – illustrator, Pascale Bougeault visited them in January. Mme. Bougeault spoke with students in their classrooms telling them about the process involved in turning an idea into a book with its characters and plot. She showed them her brushes and watercolor paints explaining how she creates the paintings that become pictures helping to tell the stories in her books. She held one of her original paintings with the book where the same image is so familiar as a page.
Mme. Bougeault may be best known for the children’s fiction she writes and illustrates including such titles as Raoul le poulpe, Mam’zelle and Les taches de leopard, but her non-fiction work should not be overlooked. Her documentaire Pourquoi si fachée is an index of different kinds of art designed to introduce art and art objects to young children. It is written as an initiation for children into the world of traditional art representing cultures on every continent.

Students are very interested in a closer look at the paintings that became illustrations.

Thought and attention must be given to details of the characters including the fabric of their clothing.