WPB students create and launch published book

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Thirteen area middle school students are now published authors and illustrators after completing a project recently offered through the Center for Creative Education (CCE), a local nonprofit which focuses on arts integration programming.

The ‘Pupils, Poetry and Pictures: Bob Forbes Mentorship at CCE’ exhibition HAS opened at the Cultural Council of Palm Beach County. The exhibition showcases a ten-week afterschool program of student works mentored by renowned children’s book author, Robert L. Forbes and CCE teaching artist, Craig McInnis.

The project is an initiative of CCE, which is based in West Palm Beach’s Northwood Village. The structured workshops perfected the illustration and writing skills of a select group of local students from Rosarian Academy, BAK Middle School of the Arts and Crestwood Middle School. The middle-schoolers created a diverse and extraordinary collection of 17 poems and corresponding illustrations which are currently on display at the Cultural Council of Palm Beach County in Lake Worth.

In addition to the colorful exhibition, the student’s works were published and printed in a book called “ The Wonderful, Whimsical, Wild World of Poems.”

Forbes said, “The magical thing about this experience was that it allowed the students to see the development of publishing a picture book from start to finish, from imagination to publication.”

The final step was fulfilled with a gratifying and well-attended book signing.