30 years ago, I was attending teachers’ college in North Bay, Ontario. One of the required things we had to do in our curriculum course was to create our own storybook. With a cover, stitched up and just like the real thing.
Most teachers did the usual. They told a story, wrote words, added their drawings and voila! They had a storybook.
I decided to do something different. By then, I was already a mature poetic mind. But probably also in my surrealist reading phase. So seeing a pile of magazines and newspapers laying on my living room floor, I got out my scissors and went to work. I wrote and made a book of poetry inspired by the found images in that pile of magazines and newspapers.
Sharing it here. There are some that might strike a chord. It’s a great exercise for teachers to do with students. Give them scissors and let them put together a book that is all theirs, theirs alone forever and ever, amen. It’s a powerful activity for students, read this story about one boy bookmaker.
View the whole book online, in your browser - HERE. Here are a few selected pages. Forgive the poor quality - images from years ago. I don’t know where the book is or went to!