Children’s Literature Advocate Colby Sharp to Discuss New Children’s Book, The Creativity Project

Renowned educator, blogger, and children’s literature advocate Colby Sharp presents more than forty beloved, award-winning, diverse, and bestselling authors and illustrators in a creative challenge in his new children’s book, The Creativity Project: An Awesometastic Story Collection (Little, Brown & Co., hardcover, $16.99, on sale 3/13/18). Colby will be discussing the book at a free community event at Sterling Community Center (113 Minus St., Greenville) on Wednesday, March 14th, at 4:30pm.

This event is FREE and open to the public. Fiction Addiction will have books for sale at the event, or you can pre-order beforehand online, at the store, or by calling Fiction Addiction at 864-675-0540.

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’s 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!

Contributors include: Tom Angleberger, Jessixa Bagley, Tracey Baptiste, Sophie Blackall, Lisa Brown, Peter Brown, Lauren Castillo, Kate DiCamillo, Margarita Engle, Deborah Freedman, Adam Gidwitz, Chris Grabenstein, Jennifer L. Holm, Victoria Jamieson, Travis Jonker, Jess Keating, Laurie Keller, Jarret J. Krosoczka, Kirby Larson, Minh Lê, Grace Lin, Kate Messner, Daniel Nayeri, Naomi Shihab Nye, Debbie Ohi, R.J. Palacio, Linda Sue Park, Dav Pilkey, Andrea Davis Pinkney, Jewell Parker Rhodes, Dan Santat, Gary Schmidt, John Schu, Colby Sharp, Bob Shea, Liesl Shurtliff, Laurel Snyder, Javaka Steptoe, Mariko Tamaki, Linda Urban, Frank Viva, and Kat Yeh.