About Ellie Sunwood
Ellie Sunwood creates interactive storybooks that put creative agency in the hands of young readers. You Tell the Story is a draw-and-write adventure book where children look at images and then write and draw their own continuations — the book provides the opening scene and the invitation; the child provides everything else. Sunwood's concept is simple and smart: rather than fill-in-the-blank templates, the book asks children to inhabit narrative rather than complete it. The result is an activity book that genuinely develops creative thinking rather than just occupying time. The illustrated prompts are open-ended enough to invite wildly different responses from different children, which is exactly what good children's creative work should do.