Interesting meeting with the writer and illustrator Don Rafael Salmerón. 2017-18
The Department of Language and Literature of the Colegio Alborán has as its primary purpose to promote a taste for reading. For this reason, it organized an interesting activity to encourage reading, coordinated with the Anaya publishing house.
Thus, on March 7, Don Rafael Salmerón, a writer and illustrator of children's and youth books and posters, visited our school.
Salmerón brought our students closer to the written and visual content of the books, in a friendly and close way, both from his vision as a writer and from his point of view as an illustrator.
Likewise, he highlighted the importance of illustrations in a book, highlighting its advantages, such as that they serve to complete it, so that the message is better understood and that it helps to immerse readers in the story and in the identification of characters.
However, he also commented that if it is not done well it can cause the opposite effect. He highlighted the value of words and intonation, stating that "we must take into account not only what is said, but also the way in which it is said", so we have to adapt the drawings and the style of the illustrations to the narrated story.
Don Rafael is a very prolific and versatile author. He focused on providing answers to all doubts and clarifying concerns that arose around the work "La tejedora de la muerte", by the writer Concha López Narváez, the first book he illustrated, read this year in class by our students.
The students showed special interest in his works "Noah's kite", "A ball for a bullet" and "27 heartbeats", stories that convey values of dreams and hopes in a real context of today's youth.
He told stories, interacted with the attendees, drew for us and gave us some beautiful drawings. He knew how to convey his passion for writing, with "the one that has full creative freedom".
This year was also a very enriching and enjoyable meeting, in which our students actively participated and were surprised by Salmerón's creative ingenuity.
