The Creativity Project
Smore by Tanisha Copas
What is the Creativity Project?
5th Grade teacher Colby Sharp from Michigan contacted various authors and illustrators about contributing to this book. He connected each of them with another (think penpals). Each of them received a package that contained two writing prompts. They could respond with a short story, comic, illustration, poem, or however they wanted to be "creative". Their responses make up "The Creativity Project". The prompts they did not choose were put at the end of the book to allow your students an opportunity to respond.
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List of Contributers
Sherman Alexie
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
Jarrett J. Krosoczka
Kirby Larson
Minh LĂȘ
Grace Lin
Kate Messner
Daniel Nayeri
Naomi Shihab Nye
Debbie Ridpath 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
Lemony Snicket
Laurel Snyder
Javaka Steptoe
Mariko Tamaki
Linda Urban
Frank Viva
Kat Yeh