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Month: January 2022

February Middle Grade and Young Adult Opportunities

January 28, 2022 Lexi Donahue

Welcome to our MG/YA Opportunities post! In 2022, the MG/YA Opportunities post has taken on a new structure but don’t worry, you’ll still be able

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Grace Lin on Diversity & Inclusion

January 25, 2022 Amy Amberg

Part 2 of 2: Grace Lin on Diversity and Inclusion Grace Lin, a NY Times bestselling author/ illustrator and winner of the Children’s Literature Legacy

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Culturally Responsive Texts in Classrooms

January 21, 2022 Keri Demers

In an October 2021 post (link below), I wrote about readability and how elementary teachers level books to match their students’ independent reading levels. Although

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Interview with Nancy Tandon, debut author of THE WAY I SAY IT

January 18, 2022 Laura Fineberg Cooper

“I can’t say my name. Not because it’s a secret or anything. Honestly I’d shout it into a microphone right now if I could. I’d give up anything to be able to do that. Even my guitar-playing fingertip calluses, which took like a million hours to get. The first half-million hours hurt. A lot.”

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Prepublished and Proud: Looking Back, and Looking Forward

January 14, 2022 Hilary Elizabeth Margitich

Hi, again. Some of you may remember me from a few blog posts I wrote here on Writers’ Rumpus in 2021. I dipped my toe

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Grace Lin on the Craft of Storytelling

January 11, 2022 Amy Amberg

Part 1 of 2: Grace Lin on the Craft of Storytelling Grace Lin, a New York Times bestselling author/ illustrator, won the Newbery Honor for

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AN INTERVIEW WITH LEAH H. ROGERS, AUTHOR OF THE BARN

January 7, 2022 René Bartos

THE BARN is a beautifully written lyrical picture book with lovely illustrations that takes us on a journey from morning through evening from the perspective

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