Reimagining Skills through Visual Storytelling: A Conversation with Graphic Novelist and Voices from the Middle Cover Artist Jamar Nicholas.

An interview with Jamar Nicholas, author and illustrator of "Leon the Extraordinary", is presented, who talks about his book's success among young readers and educators. Topics include the positive response of educators to the book's positive messages and common-sense flowchart; and Nicholas's tactile methods for working out a solution, and how he reimagines his skills when his creative process is disrupted.