Meet Adam Rex and Laura Park, the creators of a new picturebook, Digestion: The Musical. This hilarious picturebook is about the most basic process of the human body—digesting food! Candy has finally made it into the human body and her “big break” is to be successfully digested. The scientific process of digestion is told through a musical with Candy as a small-town kid who wants to make it big and includes cameos for body parts that help transform food from ingredients to nutrition. An epic adventure through the human body, from bite to bottom.

Adam and Laura will share their new book, invite children to draw, and answer questions.

The webinar will be recorded and those who register will receive that link to watch the recording if unable to join us live. Teachers who want to show the webinar live to their classes will be able to live-stream the webinar.

Host: Kathy Short, Professor of Teaching, Learning and Sociocultural Studies and Director of WOW.
Panelists: Adam Rex and Laura Park
Co-Sponsor: Tucson Festival of Books

Adam Rex is the author and illustrator of more than forty books for children, including Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich, School’s First Day of School, and Chu’s Day. He lives in Tucson, Arizona with his cat, dog, son, and wife.

Laura Park is a cartoonist and illustrator whose work appears in a range of publications and books. She is a member of the jam comics collective Trubble Club, and currently lives in Lanas, France.

Imagination Friday is co-sponsored by the Tucson Festival of Books and Worlds of Words, University of Arizona College of Education and occurs one Friday a month from 1 to 1:40 p.m. through December 2022 with a different author or illustrator each session. Add some excitement to Fridays with world-renowned children’s authors and illustrator to promote new books and encourage children as readers, writers and illustrators.