I actually had 2 years to work on it, because I
changed from „kindergarden“ to „primary school“ after three semesters.
I wanted to do something creative and I’ve always
liked children’s books and well you all know about my passion for music.
I decided to combine the two and created a story
with a class first. They were in 2nd grade at the time, this was 2 years ago. I
gave the kids a theme: Pirates and we made different tasks with that. I showed
them pictures of pirates, boats etc. and collected the kid’s thoughts, they
created a theatre in groups in the end. With all of that I started writing the
text (in German of course) and included all their ideas. Then I had to write
the theoretical part about children’s books and also about how to put it into
music. I did the music with the same kids. I wrote two pirates songs and did
other different things including music. The two pirate crews got a special
melody, we put a storm and a sunrise into music etc.
When I had the story I wanted to find someone to
draw the pictures. I didn’t want the children to do that as well, because they
had so much to do already and it would have been difficult, because they all
have different styles. A woman from my theatre group is really talented and we
sat together discussing everything. I so happy I found her, the pictures are
brilliant.
Now I have to finish up the book and edit and print the thesis. In the end there will be the written thesis, the
childeren’s book and a CD added with the music.
