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Young Entrepreneur spotlight: Picture It Picture Books

The National Post features Toronto entrepreneurs Alicia Belvedere (29) and Leanne Milech (29) co-founders of Picture It Picture Books -- a company that produces children's books with space for kids to illustrate. Less than two years old, Picture It already has six different titles carried across GTA Indigo and Chapters stores. An excerpt from an interview with founder Leanne Milech:

"About a year and a half ago, I was a discontented Bay Street lawyer at the young age of 28. During my equally discontented articling period, when I was 27, my elementary school teacher girlfriend, Alicia, asked me to write a story for her grade four class. My true passion has always been creative writing, and I felt rather disconnected from that side of myself amid the pile of legal memoranda, research and drafting I was doing at work. I wrote a short story, and Alicia read it to her class. Her class loved the story, and Alicia thought it would be cool to go ahead and get the book published. I knew better.  "Absolutely not," I said, standing in the kitchen, waving a butter knife around while making toast. "Getting a book published is very, very hard. Besides, it's a kids' book. Who would illustrate it? We can't do that ourselves" I said, resting the knife on a plate. Alicia's eyes lit up.  "What if there weren't any pictures at all? What if kids illustrated the book themselves?" The idea was born."

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original source National Post
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