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The Watching Lake
Cover Art Activity

 
 

 
 
A Wordless Song 

Write a short synopsis of the story that you would expect to find in this book.

Write anything that comes into your head. 

Swap your synopsis with a partner. 

List the things that are the same and the things that are different about what you have both written.


 
 
 

 
 
The Watching Lake

Here is another boy with a horse.

Compare the settings shown in each of these covers.

Discuss what you think will happen in this story. (list two or three things)

Now look at the cover of the Fremantle Arts Centre Press edition of The Watching Lake.

How different is that!

All of these cover images were inspired by the same story.

Read The Watching Lake. 

Develop your own story based on one or more of your predictions


 
 
 
 

 
 
 
A New Scar

Write a synopsis of this story and compare it with your other one.

Do the two stories have anything in common?


 
 

 
 
A New Scar

Compare the two boys in these pictures.

Say which one you like the best and why.
 


 
 
 
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