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How to Make a Picture Book Kate McMullan began writing "I'm Fast" in 2009 with illustrations from her husband, Jim McMullan.	Jim Gets Started Our editor signed off on the final manuscript and on a warm day in May, Jim went outside to do some thumbnail sketches.	Our Freight Train Here are some ideas of how Jim McMullan through the freight train might look.
a "Dummy" Book Jim McMullan sketched out the whole book, I'm Fast. He then pasted the sketches into a blank book called a "dummy" book.	Revising the story. Here is Kate McMullan's first draft of a later spread in the book with the train coming out of a long tunnel into a snowstorm.	More Sketches Jim McMullan's art begins to come together with Kate McMullan's word for the book, I'm Fast.
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The Galleys Jim McMullan has finished the art for the book, I'm Fast," and we begin to see the final project come together.	Some final pages Enjoy these final pages from Jim and Kate McMullan's collaboration on the children's book, I'm Fast.	Some videos from Jim and Visit our "Videos" page to see all of our films.