In her wildest dreams, Jamie Saloff never expected the publishing center she is involved in at her local school to become such a smashing success! Her book, complete with reproducible forms and step-by-step instructions, shows you how fun and easy it is to have your own publishing center in your school, church, or community group. A publishing center is a joint effort between volunteers, students, and teachers that lets children publish their stories in a professional-looking manner. Teachers integrate their classroom projects with the publishing center to support and enhance other aspects of their classroom curriculum. Work in the center solidifies lessons already learned in the classroom. In The Publishing Center you will learn how to manage the costs involved with a publishing center, how to solicit and retain parent volunteers, how a school publishing center fits into classroom goals, book assembly ideas and instructions, and illustration options.