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Sharp, Colby, Editor

The Creativity Project: An Awesometastic Story Collection

278 pp. | Little | March, 2018 | Trade ISBN 978-0-316-50781-3 $16.99 | Ebook ISBN 978-0-316-50778-3

(2) 4-6 Forty-four contemporary children's book people each contribute a writing prompt. Then each one responds to someone else's prompt. The result is a combination anthology and inspiring craft manual. Both prompts and responses include prose, poetry, photographs, drawings, and comics. The emphasis is on pleasure, but readers will notice an aspect to creativity that isn't made explicit in the introduction: almost none of the contributors obeys the rules. Ind.

Reviewer: Sarah Ellis | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 2018