Authors & Illustrators Wild About Kidlit!
I first discovered Anna Staniszewski when my kids and I read her Dirt Diary series. We adored them and quickly devoured her Unfairy Tale Life
CAROL GORDON EKSTER: Your debut picture book, Dario and the Whale, came out March 1st with Albert Whitman & Company publishers. Tell us about how
Review by Amy Courage Anna and the Swallow Man from Random House/Alfred A. Knopf is a book almost too big to write about in
In my small collection of children’s books from around the world, some help explain ways of thinking. To children the world can be a scary
TO WRITE OR NOT TO WRITE? — THAT IS THE QUESTION So, here I am again—at the BUT. Excited that my manuscript is in the final,
By Dana Nuenighoff When people ask me what I write, I instantly reply Young Adult. Then they give me this strange look, force a smile
As creatives, we color by numbers all the time without even realizing it. We want to know if ____ is working for others and if ____ is normal and if ____ has ever happened to our creative friends.
By Sarah Lynne Reul (This is part two of a three-part series – part one focused on Iterations, and part three is on Observation.) When starting a new
1. Sam is an authentic teenaged girl with OCD who has successfully hidden her condition from her friends. She spends every second worrying about how
CAROL GORDON EKSTER: It is always the most amazing time in a writer’s life when that first book gets sold. You wait for the contract,
The 2016 New England Regional SCBWI Conference will be held on Friday, April 29 – Sunday, May 1 at the Sheraton Monarch Place Hotel in Springfield, MA. And today, February 9th, registration opens at noon.
You’ve heard of Burning Man, right? The arty, fire-infused festival takes place each Labor Day week in the middle of the 400 square mile Black
Thanks to StumbleUpon, I recently discovered a site that has been around for several years, but it was new to me; perhaps it is new
By Dana Nuenighoff If you’ve been in the query trenches before, or if you’re about to jump in, you probably know that there a few
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