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Beyond Storytime, An NWP CoLab—Creating a Picture Book as a Community of Collaborators
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This CoLab features Writing Project colleagues—author-educator Ruth Devlin, artist-illustrator-educator Rebeca Garcia-Gonzalez, and editor Amy Bauman—sharing their story of collaborating from a distance in the creation of a picture book: Ants: Across, Around, and Through. Originally published on August 25, 2020Download | Subscribe: Apple / Android / Spotify
This CoLab features Writing Project colleagues—author-educator Ruth Devlin, artist-illustrator-educator Rebeca Garcia-Gonzalez, and editor Amy Bauman—sharing their story of collaborating from a distance in the creation of a picture book: Ants: Across, Around, and Through. In this episode they share their process, the challenges and possibilities of collaborative work, and consider implications for teaching writing.
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This post is part of the Beyond Storytime: When Teachers, Authors, and Illustrators Meet collection.
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