Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Life As We Knew It

This month Bookshoppers read Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer, in which the moon gets dunted every-so-slightly closer to earth by a meteor. Choas ensues.

This book is about a disaster, but also about the long, uneventful, difficult, and quieter-than-you'd-think days and weeks that follow a disaster.

After a good discussion (which included a fair share of creepy moon stories and gross medical stories) we began our project.

The bookshoppers used Storybird.com to create storybooks loosely related to Life As We Knew It. Storybird allows users to tell a story using stunning illustrations. The real challenge was concentrating on the text, telling the stories we wanted to tell with our own words and the visuals provided for us. They did a terrific job.

Most of these stories are about the moon in one way or another. All of them are spectacular.

The Moon Journey by Naima

Moon by Jonah

Life As We Knew It by Elliot

Stan's Epic 5-Page Adventure by Kai

Life As We Knew It by Maya