Brian Karas lives in the Hudson Valley of New York. Brian Karas has illustrated more than ninety children's books, including two books about Ant and Honey Bee by Megan McDonald, Tap Tap Boom Boom by Elizabeth Bluemle, and the New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book Are You Going to Be Good? by Cari Best. A Cornell-led collaboration harnessed chemical reactions to make microscale origami machines self-foldfreeing them from the liquids in which they usually function. Enough No more folding But how can Joey become an origami master if he's not allowed to practice? Is there anywhere that he can hone the skill that makes him happy - and maybe even make a new friend while he's at it? About the Authorĭori Kleber was an award-winning journalist and business writer before she began writing children's books. Joey who loves anything that can fold learns origami the Japanese art of paper folding but it takes lots of.

It's going to take practice - on his homework, the newspaper, the thirty-eight dollars in his mother's purse. When a visiting mother of a classmate turns a plain piece of paper into a beautiful origami crane, his eyes pop. Joey loves things that fold: maps, beds, accordions, you name it. Author: Dori Kleber Genre: Juvenile Fiction Topic: Art & Architecture, General, Lifestyles / City & Town Life, Social Themes. Greenburger Associates.A creative young boy with a passion for practicing origami finds a surprising source of encouragement on his diverse city block. Illustrator’s agent: Brenda Bowen, Sanford J. It’s a quiet but effective reminder of the value of practice.

Smart design decisions-including a square trim size, origami-patterned end pages, and subtle fold marks that divide Karas’s ( A Poem in Your Pocket) images into vignettes-create a graceful visual underpinning to the theme, and an origami project is included for readers. With the family fed up, Joey heads to his favorite Mexican restaurant, where the table napkins give him an idea. After a Japanese student’s mother introduces origami to Joey’s class, he dives headlong into practicing, using whatever he can get his hands on-homework, his sister’s sheet music, and money from his mother’s purse. Click here to learn more about the origins of origami. Oru in Japanese means ‘to fold’ and Kami in Japanese means ‘Paper’, so it translates as ‘To fold paper‘. When readers first see him, he’s staring dreamily at a neatly folded taco he also loves maps and the accordion, and he even sleeps in a folding bed (one that doesn’t like to stay unfolded, not that Joey appears to mind). Origami is simply the art of folding paper. The hero of Kleber’s debut, a brown-skinned boy named Joey, is obsessed with all things folded. From collecting snow globes to inventing palindromes, unusual passions and interests abound among humans young and old.

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