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Make
a Book, Teach a Kid
We needed
to increase our membership base. That was how it all
began. What was initially a disappointing first meeting
turn-out metamorphosed into an excited evening of idea
exchanges. The final product of our brainstorming
session was the Make a Book, Teach a Kid project, a
yearlong project intended to promote children's literacy by
crafting bilingual storybooks that were interesting and fun to
read.
Make a
Book, Teach a Kid had been a very challenging but
rewarding yearlong effort. Our five original storybooks
worked its way through several bookbinding parties, a couple
corporate negotiations, and multiple translation mishaps.
In the end though, they survived. Thirty-three copies of
five books were made for donation to a Buddhist temple in
Massachusetts, a refugee relocation center in Maine, and a
non-profit development organization in Cambodia. In the
end, it was well worth the hard work. We now just hope
the children whose hands the books fall into will enjoy
reading them as much as we have enjoyed making them.
IMAGES OF OUR BOOKS
Please
note: Our books are not for sale. However, we do
provide a copy of one of our books with each donation (minimum
of $30). Please contact the board at
bbccboard@panlists.yale.edu if you are interested in
either acquiring a hard or electronic version of our books.
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guidelines
The project
is more or less self-explanatory, but here are some guidelines
to keep in mind when crafting your book.
1.
Creativity is welcomed and even encouraged. There is no
strict format to follow. Illustrations may be done with
computer graphics, with watercolors, crayons, markers,
magazine clippings, photographs, and so on.
2. Because
these books are made for a young audience whose first language
most likely is not English, please keep your English text
legible and clear. Also leave about a half inch to an inch of
space for the Cambodian text translation.
3. Have
fun with the content of your book. You may opt to write a
poem, a fairy tale, a nonfiction story, a book where every
page is disconnected from the previous, an alphabet book, and
so on. Anything and everything is welcomed.
4. You may
work in groups of 2-4 or by yourself. Groups may decide to
separate work into areas of expertise or come to BBCC meetings
every first and third Monday of the month at 8:00 p.m. to meet
up with their team members. If you don’t know anyone but
would like to work in a group, don’t worry – we will match you
up.
5. Time
commitment is very much up to you -- you may choose to be a
project leader for your book group or you may also just spend
ONE day to design a book cover. Just let us know what you
wish to help out on and to what extent.
6. The
project is set to finish by December 9th (end of reading
period) of this semester. The Make a Book, Teach a Kid project
will continue to the
Spring semester. There will be a celebration and reading at
the culmination of the project.
deadlines
Oct. 15
and 22: Workshops. Meet and talk about ideas. Bring
rough drafts of text if you want them edited.
Oct. 29: Deadline for the written text. E-mail text
to Alice Huang and
Gabriela.Bernadett.
Nov. 5 and 19: Design workshop. Discuss ideas for the
visual presentation of the story.
Dec. 3: Deadline for the page design, scanned and then
e-mailed to Alice Huang
and Gabriela
Bernadett.
more
questions? email
bbccboard@panlists.yale.edu
Pictures from BBCC's Art
Exhibit, Cambodian Story (3/24/05)
Pictures from BBCC's 2nd
semester bookbinding party (2/12/05)
Pictures from BBCC's 1st
semester bookbinding party (12/9/04)
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