There's a really interesting post over at Joy Chu's Got Story Countdown blog about the making of the picture book THE GINGERBREAD MAN LOOSE IN THE SCHOOL.
I love that this book began with a teacher having a creative idea that excited kids. Author Laura Murray described her students' annual hunt for the gingerbread man throughout the school building: "We hung missing posters and searched the halls, discovering crumbs and dropped candies, as we asked school staff where he might be."
The post gives a really interesting inside look at all that happened after she took that idea and turned it into a manuscript. Illustrator Mike Lowery (love his stuff!) and art director Cecilia Yung discuss their role in developing this title from manuscript to picture book.
Here's the link–enjoy.
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