Library hosts children’s author

SEBAGO — Spaulding Memorial Library recently hosted award-winning author and illustrator Kevin Hawkes. All the students at Sebago Elementary School came over to the library and spent part of their morning learning about how a book is created.

Mr. Hawkes showed older students original manuscripts, sketches and paintings, and then the books that they became. He described the process, using original material to show them each of the steps. With all of the classes, he drew sketches on an easel, illustrating things such as how some lines help depict motion, how parts of the face cause shadows, how eyebrows can show emotion, and how babies’ faces differ from adults.

He had the students noting similarities in the parts of feet and hands that leave a print and how the addition of just one element can change a drawing into a story. From learning about how a love of art can lead to a career and how good observation is important to all drawing was woven throughout his stories and