Brazos Price on Brazos Price: “After graduating from the University of Texas at Austin School of Information in 2006, Brazos began working full time for the Austin Public Library Youth Services Division. As an extension of his graduate work, he became a part of the Second Chance Books Project. Today,
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Erin Murphy on Erin Murphy: “I grew up in Arizona, a fifth-generation native to the state and the product of a family of elementary educators–both parents and all four grandparents were teachers and administrators.
“Many of my fondest memories revolve around books and words: The first day of summer vacation,
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This month the readergirlz welcome Newbery author Shannon Hale with her latest novel, Book of a Thousand Days (Bloomsbury, 2007). You can chat with Shannon and the readergirlz May 22 at 6 p.m. PST, 9 p.m. EST. Learn more! See also Fusion Stories: New Novels for Young Readers to Celebrate Asian Pacific American Month and Children’s and YA Books with Asian and Asian American Themes,
S. A. Bodeen on S. A. Bodeen: “S.A. Bodeen is the author of several acclaimed picture books, and a winner of the Ezra Jack Keats Award. A native of Wisconsin and former Peace Corps volunteer, she most recently lived in the Pacific Northwest where she wrote The Compound and taught creative writing.”
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Kira Lynn is the publisher at Kane/Miller, “a very small, very specialized, very independent publishing company.” Read the company’s blog, Kane/Miller Kidlit!
What kind of young reader were you?
I read all the time, from the moment I could. I still do. The only difficult thing was that while my comprehension was terrific,
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Texas Institute of Letters Awards
Arturo O. Martinez won the $500 Friends of the Austin Public Library Award for Best Children’s Book for Pedrito’s World (Texas Tech University Press). The finalist was Rodeo by Roxie Munro (Bright Sky).
Naomi Shihab Nye‘s I’ll Ask You Three Times,
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Mary Hooper on Mary Hooper: “I’ve been writing books for children and young adults for about twenty years. I’m happily (re)married with two grown children and live about forty miles outside London.”
What kind of teenager were you?
I was an only child and not born until my mum and dad were forty,
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Austin SCBWI offered a great line-up for its April 26 conference.
Featured speakers included: author and editor Deborah Noyes Wayshak from Candlewick Press (author-editor interview); Alvina Ling from Little Brown (personal blog); agent Erin Murphy (interview by Pam Mingle from Kite Tales,
Elaine Scott on Elaine Scott: “I was born in Philadelphia and lived there until my father’s career brought the family to Dallas in 1952. So I’m really a Texan, though I claim Philly, too.
“Dad was a banker, Mother a homemaker who loved reading and writing. In fact, she had dreamed of a writing career of her own,
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Susan Marie Swanson on Susan Marie Swanson: “I learned to read and write and ride a bicycle in a small Illinois town on the edge of the Chicago area. It was a lucky place to grow up. I went into the city with my family and on school trips, but we lived on the edge of a cornfield where we could see the sun set from the kitchen window.
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