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Figure 14. (a) Jennifer Funnel, “Robot” (© 2011, J. Funnell. Used with permission); (b) Jason Baird,
“Robot” (© 2010, J. Baird. Used with permission). It is suggested that a robot could be a box we speak
to. (c) Preston Stone, “Robot” (© 2012, P. Stone. Used with permission)
Figures 14a, b, c present three different student
approaches to this theme. Jennifer Funnel pre-
sented her robot on a poster that advertises a
friendly humanoid robot. Jason Baird designed
his robot as an interactive cube box with a micro-
phone on its side saying to the user, “Ask to do
something or push the button: you tell an order
and it is done.” Preston Stone presented his robot
in a painterly, heroic, and almost romantic way.
in Wonderland“ was written by Lewis Carroll
(1898/1993) and illustrated by Sir John Tenniel.
“Winnie the Pooh” (1926) and “The House at Pooh
Corner” (1928) were written by Alan Alexander
Milne (2009) and illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard.
In many cases poets illustrate their works them-
selves, attaining an undivided, complete quality
distinctive to the work. For example, Antoine de
Saint-Exupéry (1943/2000) illustrated his topic
“The Little Prince.” Beatrix Potter (2006) wrote
and illustrated “The Tale of Peter Rabbit” in 1893.
See Table 4 for Your Visual Response.
Illustration in Figure 15 relates to a story en-
titled “Fate and Chance” telling about eight
generations of members of one family, with their
works and their growing, more and more advanced
achievements interrupted in a violent way by
natural disasters resulting from geological pro-
cesses.
Project 2. Poem Illustration:
Illustration to a Geology Inspired
Poem, “Fate and Chance”
Many times a poet working with an illustrator
become a successful team and create together
several works that seem better than a text or an
image alone. However, high visual literacy is a
prerequisite for both a writer and an illustrator
to achieve this goal. A topic “Alice's Adventures
