Flo Learns to Fly: Creativity for Kids

Flo Learns to Fly is a warm and insightful children's story where self-growth prevails in unexpected ways.

Flo is a young penguin who loves to explore, but sometimes her explorations lead her into trouble with the predators and perils of Antarctica. She imagines that it would be wonderful to fly, which leads her on a quest, against her father's wishes. Flo uses several creativity techniques in the process, engaging with a community of new friends along the way. Flo Learns to Fly is a heartwarming story of friendship, creativity, and self-learning that occurs when curiosity is nurtured.

Bruce Elliott-Litchfield is professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he developed and taught Creativity, Innovation and Vision and Advancing Creativity-campus-wide courses for all students. He is married to Mary, and they have three grown childre and a grandson who loves penguins; they all fly beautifully in their own ways.Valentina Grant, a proud American Chilean, was born and raised in Champaign, Illinois. She studied art at the University of Illinois School of Art & Design, where she focused on illustration. Valentina has been drawing for as long as she can remember, and everything changed the day she received a drawing tablet as a birthday gift!Since then she's been passionate about storytelling through art, whether it's creating breathtaking background designs, storyboarding scenes, or drawing fun and stylized illustrations as an artist.Visit her online at ValentinaGrant.com.