Gloria's Project
In the early 1980s, my grandmother, Gloria Bittner, was a literacy tutor. As a retired schoolteacher, she believed in the power of phonics to help children learn to read as opposed to sightreading, which was the common practice at the time. She wrote short stories, each one centered around a specific vowel sound, to help her students learn to read and sound out words and vowel sounds. I took it upon myself to illustrate two stories of hers: Adam’s Hat and Liz and the Kid.
One day I would like to have them published as she always intended, but in the meantime, they serve as a sample of my capacity for narrative illustration.
Gloria's Project Part 1: Adam's Hat. A phonics primer centered around the short "A" sound.
Gloria's Project Part 2: Liz & the Kid. A phonics primer centered around the short "I" sound.
