It is well known that the artist, creator and therefore creative, illustrator and ultimately writer Keri Smith has managed to successfully venture into a literary career that seeks more the creative turn that hooks young readers than end up telling a story.
And there will be detractors, as always, and with the weight of their reasons ... But the empirical evidence they leave Keri Smith's books are that boys like. And when some of those kids are unable to approach a book even on medical advice, well maybe we have to give thanks.
Because on our part as adults and tutors I don't think there is anything to reproach. In some books it is about reading about the challenges that the book itself proposes and that ends transgressing from that creative notion more than what can be seen as destructive.
On other occasions (logically, if I repeated the same formula, it would not be an artist or creative or anything) the author has tried to present a story, more or less, in an underground way ... But the question is to interact in a more direct way, beyond formulas that in the past they wanted to make reading something interactive like "choose your own adventure ..." (which could have been good at the time but was not the intention of Keri Smith in search of new literary horizons).
Many books relate and are accompanied by illustrations. The books of an illustrator like Keri Smith seek to be illustrated, interacted, performed…, lightly accompanied by stories, instructions and guidelines to have a good time with a book.
Top 3 Recommended Books by Keri Smith
Smash this journal
The first of the books by this Canadian author. In this full-color edition, the laughter and the continuous discovery of the kids has to a point of greater sophistication. Afterwards, you have to be the one to decide that this experiment between the creative, the surprising and the disconcerting may be worthwhile ...
Synopsis: You may be an expert shredder and have devoured one or more copies of Smash this journal. Or maybe this is your first time (pst, this experience may change your life). Be that as it may, look no further, you've found the perfect book to destroy. Introducing the new one Smash this journal, Now in a stunning full color edition! Inside you will find challenges to paint, break, transform and unleash your creativity; a mix of your favorite challenges and brand new ones. Smash this journal. Now in full color Invites you to smash into colors: mix paints to create mud, let luck choose the tone, cut out strips of brightly colored paper, and much more.
Finish this book
Without the pull of the explosive work that marked the beginning of Keri's journey on books, in this volume we find a direct proposal by the author for the kids, one of those unavoidable adventures of the budding writer that we all carry inside, the rapporteur of our days, of which at some point in his life he would like a diary to dump his emotions or start with that story that, in some cases, with determination, can even lead to a novel ... Just in case, Keri Smith has already left the Half-done cover, as in a gallery of the impatient writer who is going to undertake the task of ending what may be a four-handed story between Keri and the new signer of the issue ...
Synopsis: One dark and rainy night, I found some strange pages abandoned in a park. I collected them trying to solve the mystery of this curious discovery and now it is your turn to finish the job. Your mission is to become the new author of this book. You must continue the research and provide the content. To achieve your goal, you must undergo secret training, which is included in this text. As no one knows what can happen, we advise you to work carefully, but remember that without you this book would not exist.
Sincerely, Keri Smith
The imaginary world of ...
Abundant in that idea of ​​the writer that we can all harbor. And pointing to the transcendental moment of childhood in which language begins to be a powerful tool with which to compose from ironies to jokes, without forgetting the essential, a channel for emotions ...
In those ages when the invisible friend is still there ..., or at a later time when the invisible friend is left parked next to the toys ... Always, during the inexhaustible universe of childhood, it is a good time to immerse yourself in the imaginary world of ..., like a small great Michael Ende about to narrate «The endless story»Or letting yourself be led by the Little Prince of Saint Exupery… It is true that it is not easy to undertake the enterprise of creating new worlds. But Keri makes it easier for us… Keri Smith surprises us with another fantastic book to bring out the artist that we all carry inside, let our imagination and creativity fly and observe everything that surrounds us in a different way.
En The imaginary world of ..., Keri Smith invites us to create a unique world of our own, an ideal world, which we have always dreamed of. To do this, we will start to make a list of the things we love, the things we keep, the colors and shapes that we like the most, the ideas that we defend or pursue or the people that fascinate us. All this will become the basis for building a very particular universe, in which little by little we will delineate stories, food, landscapes, textures, maps, inhabitants and much more.
