Authors & Illustrators Wild About Kidlit!
I’m so excited to interview Susan Kusel about her debut picture book, The Passover Guest.
Artemis and I met at Jane Yolen’s picture book boot camp at Highlights Foundation the November before Covid hit. Artemis reached out to Writers’ Rumpus
One book shows the edge habitat between a brown author growing up and the natural world that inspires her. The other is about four friends,
“Jess did as she was told. She moved like she was made of some unbendable material as she crossed to the other side of the
Making sense of words, meaning, worlds, characters, and structures is what we do when we write. Whether fiction or nonfiction, we are called to research every element to enable the best reader-experience.
“I sucked in a mouthful of smoky, spicy air and held it in a while I lay on the ground. It was full of all
