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Children’s Book Cover

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Create a children's book cover using primarily cutting and pasting. Imagine you're cutting shapes out of construction paper and gluing them onto another piece of paper. Except it doesn't have to be paper. You can make a cover for a book that already exists, or make up your own.

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The Giving Tree

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