During my time at the Penguin Young Readers Group, I organized old book files, scanned items for designers, researched illustrators for the art directors and made book dummies to send off to illustrators. I also assisted with more design-related jobs.

I got a glimpse of what it will be like to work as a children’s book illustrator who interacts with an art director and a designer for a book. I saw original sketches, along with initial comments, then revised sketches and comments on those. This showed me the way art directors, editors and designers think about a book and the various changes I might have to make to an illustration before it’s completed.

The people I worked with were very supportive. They liked to show me what they were working on so I could learn as much as possible while I was there. It was great being in such a creative work environment.

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