The Creativity Project: An Awesometastic Story Collection - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0316507814 ISBN 13: 9780316507813

Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2018

Synopsis

Book advocate Colby Sharp presents more than forty beloved, award-winning, diverse and bestselling authors and illustrators in a creative challenge!

Colby Sharp invited more than forty authors and illustrators to provide story starters for each other; photos, drawings, poems, prose, or anything they could dream up. When they received their prompts, they responded by transforming these seeds into any form of creative work they wanted to share.

The result is a stunning collection of words, art, poetry, and stories by some of our most celebrated children book creators. A section of extra story starters by every contributor provides fresh inspiration for readers to create works of their own. Here is an innovative book that offers something for every kind of reader and creator!

About this title

About the Author

Colby Sharp is a co-founder of the online community Nerdy Book Club and its off-shoot conference, Nerd Camp, two popular monthly Twitter chats, #Titletalk, #SharpSchu, and The Yarn, a podcast about bookmaking and the creative process.

Reviews

Gr 4–6—This collection is the result of a scheme facilitated by teacher and children's book advocate Sharp. He recruited 44 children's book creators—from Sherman Alexie to Javaka Steptoe to Victoria Jamieson—to compose and respond to one another's story prompts. Featuring work from a wide array of contributors, this volume includes stories, poetry, illustrations, and comics dealing with an incredible variety of subject matter, from Laurie Keller's humorous cartoon about anthropomorphic hats to Andrea Davis Pinkney's moving poem about Jackie Robinson. The authors and illustrators have been selected with care, coming from many different cultural backgrounds and representing an assortment of genres and creative styles. Although the variety of responses to the prompts causes the collection to feel at times a bit uneven, the mixed bag approach allows readers to have a peek into the creative processes of some of their favorite book creators and to understand that young people, too, have the power to tell a story. The second portion of the book invites readers to do just that. Each of the creators has provided an additional unanswered prompt for readers to explore their creativity and storytelling abilities. Back matter includes brief biographies of the contributors. VERDICT Packed with ideas and inspiration, this volume provides fodder for the imagination of those participating in storytelling projects, whether on their own or in a classroom or library program.—Sarah Reid, Four County Library System, NY

Edition details

• Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0316507814
• ISBN 13: 9780316507813
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: Sharp Colby