My Week

by FIRMIN, JOSIEFIRMIN, JOSIE

• ISBN13: 9780763615482
• ISBN10: 076361548X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-09-01
• Publisher: Candlewick

Summary

Captures the essentials of a child's world in a fun foldout format. In this truly innovative and colorful approach to expanding a very young child's world, artist Josie Firmin uses a basic origami fold to create a book whose pages unfold to four times the size of the original. As each page expands, so will vocabularies, as young readers encounter new words and detailed pictures of the world around them. MY WEEK features spreads of daily activitiespreschool fun, a play date, swimming, reading, a party, and more. Josie Firmin's detailed and vivid images offer young children hundreds of pictures to pore over and lots of everyday words to read.

Author Biography

Josie Firmin began her career coloring for comic books, but had always wanted to create a children's book in a nontraditional format. Several years later, she arrived at her unique "origami style" picture book. Josie Firmin lives in England with her family, and spends three days a week painting china in her shop in London.