Join award-winning, best-selling and internationally published creators of illustrated books for a presentation and conversation about how art works to tell a story. Authors Adrian Lysenko and Jean E. Pendziwol along with illustrators Todd Stewart and Olivia Amoah will reference their own work and experience to discuss how illustrators and writers collaborate, the role of publishers in the creative process and where graphic novels and picture books fit in today’s publishing market. Audience members are encouraged to bring questions for the panel.