The Lion Singer and Elephant Dancer will have to be editied in terms of drawings - I simply pasted in photos of the...

The Lion Singer and Elephant Dancer will have to be editied in terms of drawings - I simply pasted in photos of the rough drawings I'm working on. The thought is that the three books together could form a paperback reader called 'The Tiger Biker and Friends'.

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  1. Dorothy ZemachJuly 2, 2017 at 2:10 PM

    If you have three stories that length, and keep your images nice and big, then I think you could hit 24 pages. Think 5 x 8 or 5.25 x 8. That will be the size of a supermarket paperback (although much thinner, of course). You could go bigger, but then you'll have a ton of white space on your pages with the words--which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but definitely something to think about. Check out paperbacks that have the look you want and see what they do with font size and white space per page.

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  2. Leonie OverbeekJuly 2, 2017 at 2:25 PM

    Thanks! So can I go ahead and work on the images? I want to do a few more pictures for the Lion Singer and the Elephant Dancer.
    Also, I've been thinking - if I include some worksheets/questions about each one it could be turned into a reader/workbook combination.

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  3. Dorothy ZemachJuly 2, 2017 at 2:35 PM

    You could absolutely flesh out the length like that--let's see how many
    pages it comes in at to begin with. Do you have original image files?

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  4. Leonie OverbeekJuly 2, 2017 at 5:34 PM

    I'd have to scan them, and I want to do a bit more work on them - so, no, except for the Tiger Biker images, not at present.

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  5. Leonie OverbeekJuly 4, 2017 at 12:08 PM

    Update - The Lion Singer now has nine drawings (in pencil stage - inking come next!) and I'm thinking of the same number for The Elephant Dancer).

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