Kaytlynn Lamb - 2021

The Story of Corn

When I was presented with this assignment, I immediately knew I wanted to write a children’s book. I am a writer and I love kids. I also co-teach at a cooperative learning facility in my hometown. One of the main facets of my classes is connecting the lesson to a children’s book. I think it is so important that children are presented with new ideas or ways of thinking through stories and images. For my final project I decided to make a children’s book about the food system. My book is called “The Story of Corn” and it is about how corn is at the center of our food system. I struggled with selecting a topic because this course gave me so many ideas and directions that I could go. I had several concepts lined out from soil health, doubling time, types of energy, to a three-part series where a child asks: “Mommy, Where Are All The Animals?,” “Daddy, What’s a Rainforest?,” and “Mommy, What’s a Glacier?” (these would be the titles and premises for the books themselves). Though I finally settled on “The Story of Corn,” I plan on creating many more children’s books about the material I have learned from this class (and probably on other topics too).