Authors & Illustrators Wild About Kidlit!
Latin Grammy award winner Lucky Diaz’s Paletero Man has boogied from a finger-snapping song into a delectable picture book with a dramatic twist. Just as in the
Events, classes, contests for Middle Grade and Young Adult writers for June, 2021
This is the book I didn’t know I needed right now. A story of siblings, seasons, and seeing the bright side of any day, More
I have started building a library of books for my new son. Even though he is brand new, we read to him all the time,
Dawn Prochovnic and I are in a 2021 marketing group and we’re also Rate Your Story Judges together. I’m thrilled to learn about her writing
For Melanie Ellsworth, the plan was to celebrate her debut picture book, Clarinet and Trumpet, in August of 2020 but COVID reared its ugly head and said, “hip, hip, no way!” A bummer to be bumped but now she gets to celebrate TWO book birthdays in two months and I’m so excited to chat with her about them both in today’s interview.
As someone who wrote a high school term paper on the Crimean War, I was thrilled when Candlewick offered the opportunity to review Mary Seacole
All picture book author-illustrators need to consider how your story and images fit together. Even when the narrative is not told in actual words, it
Events, classes, contests for Middle Grade and Young Adult writers for April, 2021
Just like we learn from picture books as mentor texts, we can also learn from author visits as mentor visits.
When I learned that Astronomer Jocelyn Bell Burnell, discoverer of pulsars, was getting her own picture book biography, LISTENING TO THE STARS, and it was
Kirsti Call: As my mentor and friend, you are an inspiration! This is your 400th book. How does it feel to make it to 400?
We’ve all heard it before: conflict is what drives stories. This idea has led to a market where bestsellers are stuffed with ever-increasing stakes that
CAROL GORDON EKSTER: Your debut picture book, JET THE CAT (IS NOT A CAT) Barefoot Books, comes out May 1, 2021. I was lucky enough
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