Festive Book Publishing Challenge

This festive-themed resource is perfect for classroom group work or individual as part of a Blended Learning situation.

Participants work at a Children’s Publishers, and have come across a problem. In their Christmas range, there aren’t enough books with female, BAME (black, Asian and minority ethnic) or disabled characters, which means that not everyone is being represented fairly.

Students are tasked with taking on different roles within the business to come up with a Festive book idea (including the design of the cover, decide on the content, and create a marketing strategy) that tackles this issue.

This workbook takes students through the challenge brief, exploration of the issue at hand, generating the ideas, and eventually, the production process where they will have the chance to pitch/present their final idea. The resource tasks can be completed either individually or as part of a group.

This workbook has been created for Second Level students within the CfE, however can be easily adapted for other levels or benchmarks.