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Author: Hilary Margitich

Hilary Margitich is a former corporate consultant who, after having her three sons, now lives a creative life as a children’s writer and blogger. Currently completing graduate work in Children's Literature at Penn State, she enjoys both reading and writing kidlit (picture books and middle grade are her favorite). Hilary enjoys participating in local and online critique groups, and also volunteering as a school librarian. She lives in Andover, MA with her family.

INTERVIEW WITH PICTURE BOOK AUTHOR CAROL GORDON EKSTER

May 13, 2022 Hilary Margitich

Carol Gordon Ekster writes picture books–all kinds of them, inspired by all sorts of different topics that engage her, and in turn, engage her young

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INTERVIEW WITH DEBUT PICTURE BOOK AUTHOR CHELSEA LIN WALLACE

April 8, 2022 Hilary Margitich

Chelsea Lin Wallace and I met rather serendipitously over social media many months ago, and I do feel that fate was somehow at work in

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WILD ABOUT SAM USHER

March 11, 2022 Hilary Margitich

Are you a fan of gouache, like me? No, not goulash (though I am a fan of that, too, particularly on a cold day). I

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This Last Adventure, By Ryan Dalton

February 11, 2022 Hilary Margitich

To Austin For all the reasons you forgot From those who remember This is the dedication at the front of Ryan Dalton’s beautiful new middle

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Prepublished and Proud: Looking Back, and Looking Forward

January 14, 2022 Hilary 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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Interview with Author, Speaker, and Entrepreneur Julie Hedlund

October 1, 2021 Hilary Margitich

Julie Hedlund is a wearer of many hats, and a woman of many talents. Her new picture book OVER, BEAR! UNDER, WHERE? is full of

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Interview with Rob Justus, Author/Illustrator of Death & Sparkles

September 3, 2021 Hilary Margitich

Odd couple characters abound in children’s books. If you think for a moment, I bet you can rattle off a bunch. There’s Frog and Toad,

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Starfish, by Lisa Fipps

August 6, 2021 Hilary Margitich

“To every kid who’s ever been told, “You’d be so pretty or handsome, if…” You ARE beautiful. Now. Just as you are. You deserve to

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Channeling the Creative Child Inside You

July 9, 2021 Hilary Margitich

When I was a child in the eighties, there was almost nothing that made me happier than locking myself away in my bedroom or playroom,

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SOME DADDIES

By Carol Gordon Ekster, Illustrated by Javiera Maclean AlvarezMay 17, 2022
How many ways can a daddy look? Available today from Beaming Books. Order now for Father's Day!

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By Kirsti Call, Illustrated by Denis AngelovJune 28, 2022
31 days to go.

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3 months to go.

It’s NOT The Three Little Pigs!

By Josh Funk, Illustrated by Edwardian TaylorOctober 25, 2022
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