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The STAY Inside Story
For 22 years, the Inside Story has chugged along, staging twice-yearly gatherings at libraries and bookstores to celebrate new books created by Seattle-area children’s authors and illustrators. The goal is to give each book creator two minutes to share something … Continue reading
Reading the Times
WE’RE SITTING TIGHT here in Seattle, at the U.S. epicenter of the coronavirus, while news of Boeing’s 737 Max crisis, the Democratic primaries, and the stock market’s volubility swirl around us. How to stay calm in these stressful times? Curl … Continue reading
Where Lily Isn’t
For 17 years my husband Joe and I had a little dog named Lily. When she died her absence pressed against me. I missed her in general, and I missed her specifically and strongly in all the places where she … Continue reading
First Graders, Cucumber Sandwiches and Foxes
Last month on a beach in Hawaii, I met a fellow grandma named Susie. She has a granddaughter, Hannah, back in Wisconsin. Turns out Hannah’s class was just then reading my book, Zelda and Ivy The Runaways. What a coincidence! … Continue reading
Library Love: The Final Episode
Last week Seattle hosted the 2019 Midwinter American Library Association Meeting. Thousands and thousands of happy librarians arrived to be impressed by the latest books, info-gadgets, and literary comers. Seattle loves its librarians. We are home to the company that … Continue reading
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Runaway Reading
The first box arrived Thursday. Inside were seven picture books. I’ve been told to expect about 175 more before the January 15 deadline, from which my fellow judges and I will select the 2019 winners of the Margaret Wise Brown … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging about Life, Children's Book Critique Group Blog, Children's Book Critique Groups, Children's Books - Awards, Children's Books Blog, Margaret Wise Brown Prize, picture books, the writing process, writing, Writing Children's Books
Tagged E.B. Lewis, Elaine Magliaro, Goodnight Moon, Hollins University, Little Wolf's First Howling, Margaret Wise Brown Prize, The Runaway Bunny
Sometimes Telling Does the Trick
A couple blog posts ago, I talked about how important is to create an emotional experience for your reader. Donald Maass lays out some strategies for how you can do that in his book The Emotional Craft of Fiction. Maass … Continue reading
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