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Inflection Point: Shadra Strickland Puts the Dash in Author-Illustrator

The Reading Culture

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The Importance of Storytelling

I've always loved Shodra's work. I even interviewed her in a series of Google Hangouts nearly 10 years ago. It wasn't until 2023 with the release of Jump In that she took a monumental step, writing and illustrating her own story. The story came from a commercial where there were people jump roping and double dutching. She sat down and wrote it because it was an exercise.

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