Learn about Marion Dane Bauer.
What have you learned from writing in a variety of formats?
What I love about shifting genres and audiences is the different kinds of strengths each one requires.
When I shift into a short novella from longer work, I think, Oh, how fun. I barely get into a chapter and I can climb out again.
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Here’s a sneak peek at the cover art for Holler Loudly by Cynthia Leitich Smith, illustrated by Barry Gott (Dutton, Nov. 11, 2010)(ages 4-up).
From the promotional copy:
Holler Loudly has a voice as big as the Southwestern sky, and everywhere he goes people tell him to “Hush!” From math class to the movies and even the state fair,
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Interview by Jenny Desmond Walters for SCBWI Bologna 2010
Hi Stephen, it is my pleasure to have the chance to ask you some questions today in preparation for the upcoming 2010 SCBWI Bologna Symposium. The conference is certainly shaping up to be another exemplary SCBWI event. Before getting into some questions about your writing craft,
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Seizing that ‘Some Day’: KU Alum Follows her ‘Eternal’ Dream and Gets a Best-selling Surprise by Cathy Hamilton from The Lawrence Journal World. Peek:
“‘I literally gasped,’ Smith laughs. ‘I’ve always read that: ‘She gasped,’ and I thought no one ever really does it. But, apparently, yes, if you make The New York Times best-selling list for the first time and you had no idea it was going to happen,
Interview by Laura Watkinson for SCBWI Bologna 2010
Sarah, you’re a publisher and managing director with Walker Books in Australia. Could you tell us a little about your career and what path you took to reach this position?
I joined Walker Books in 1986 as their first Export Manager and spent the following three years traveling five months per annum for the company in to Canada,
From Bethany Hegedus
Bestselling author Holly Black [shown] will be the 2010 judge of the Katherine Paterson Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing at Hunger Mountain: the VCFA Journal of the Arts.
The Katherine Paterson prize was launched last year to honor writers of young adult and children’s literature.
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Interview by Jenny Desmond Walters for SCBWI Bologna 2010
Kristin, thank you for taking the time to share some of your knowledge with us in preparation for the upcoming SCBWI Bologna 2010 conference.
I’d like to first mention what fun it was reading the many interviews with you posted around the web.
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Bologna, Italy–The Hans Christian Andersen Award Jury of the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY), has announced that David Almond, from the United Kingdom is the winner of the 2010 Hans Christian Andersen Author Award and that Jutta Bauer, from Germany is the winner of the 2010 Hans Christian Andersen Illustrator Award.
Thank you so much for having me on your blog, Cynthia—I’m a regular reader and it’s an honour to be here!
I thought I’d talk today about short stories and novels, seeing I’ve so recently rediscovered that I can write novels, after a long affair with the short form.
Newbery Medalist Sid Fleischman Dies at 90 by Rocco Staino from School Library Journal. Peek: “Fleischman was a teller of tall tales and a humorist who often set his stories in the American west or farm country.”
See also Laughter and Children’s Literature by Sid Fleischman from The Horn Book (October 1976).
