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Authors, illustrators visit schools: CMS students excited to receive visits from Novello reading festival participants.

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| November 01, 2006 | This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Steve Lyttle

Nov. 1--Kadir Nelson showed a slide depicting one of his drawings -- a tall man of Paul Bunyan proportions walking over a grove of trees.

The group of several dozen third-graders seated on the floor in front of Nelson let loose with a chorus of "oohs." "Big Jabe!" several of them exclaimed. "You know that book?" Nelson said in surprise. The students did. Many of them had read the children's book "Big Jabe," a story of an African American slave who became a hero. And for about an hour last Friday, the students at University Park Creative Arts School got a chance to meet the man who illustrated the book they had read. Nelson…

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