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Beyond Storytime, An NWP CoLab—Awesome Author Visits when Everyone is on Zoom
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This Beyond Storytime NWP CoLab features Kentucky educator Sandra Hogue and author-illustrators K-Fai Steele, Gordon C. James, Aram Kim, and Kyle Lukoff. Originally published on August 15, 2020Download | Subscribe: Apple / Android / Spotify
About Beyond Storytime
In April 2020, with school buildings closed for shelter-in-place, NWP Writers Council members, teachers, and children’s book authors and illustrators came together to rethink the stand-alone storytime and the traditional “author visit.” The Beyond Storytime CoLab was launched from this initial conversation and in each episode we dig into one of aspect of the work and spend time co-designing together.
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