Data for Eagle Fables
_Eagle Fables: A Story & Picture Book
with numerous illustrations in color and black and white Artist book written and illustrated by Doris Rowe ©2004 Butterfly Edition by Doris Rowe ©2006 Hardcover available published by iPhoto ©2007 Mission: To set forth stories with common sense and moral values— without religiosity. Freed from its staid position as emboldened on the Great Seal of the United States- the mascot for our national government these eagles speak to events within an eagle society. Data: 64 pages in this fan-folded book 26 fable sets: Story, black/white drawing, and color drawing Saved to disk as 300 dpi Photoshop and Illustrator files. Description of Characters The American Bald eagles: • are free-flying avatars who demonstrate basic moral values; • are entities who respond to life's challenges in personal ways; • can think, speak, and act; • can be kind, naughty, smart, wise, nasty, caring, wrong, reckless, or dead; • as gender free they enable open identification with contemporary families. |
Language: Flesch Kincaid Reading Level – 4.7
• the present tense is used to support the illustrations; • the stories tell about thievery, growing up, knowing history, being overconfident, having defenses, cooperation, rejection, being trustful, adoption, nesting, learning, bullying, greed, irresponsibility, murder, success, justice, fear, and peace; • new words are understood through careful study of illustrations; • the moral recapitulates the lesson in each story; Drawings: • the color drawings emphasize open skies filled with light, clouds, rain, and space. • the black / white drawings add meaning and contribute to further understanding. NOTE: Eagles are much like humans: they have talons to hold things; beaks to speak, a place called home, and, they bond for life. These magnificent raptors set up housekeeping together, raise one to three eaglets at a time, and share, equally, in the duties of parenthood. They are strong, courageous, and active, and, if lucky, can live a long life of fifty years, or so. |