Tuesday, April 21, 2009
During the visit, Ms. Parisi critiqued the covers and discussed her job as an art director at Scholastic. Parent volunteer Cathy Kelly stated, “The cover design workshop was extremely popular with the students. Ms. Parisi showed the class the first group of covers. The class shared what they liked about the poses (of children) and colors….pictures were modeled after old boxing posters or election posters. Then she presented the second group of covers which looked more modern with more color and characters. Finally, the actual cover designed by Scholastic was revealed!” Lisa Yee’s novel is scheduled to come out in hardcover this fall.