Fiammetta Giorgi is an editor at Mondadori Children’s Books in Italy. She was interviewed by Anita Loughrey in December 2007, as one of the speakers at the SCBWI Bologna Conference 2008 (scheduled for March 29 and March 30 in Bologna, Italy).
What made you decide to go into children’s book publishing?
Carmen Diana Dearden is editor and publisher of Ediciones Ekaré, a Venezuelan Publishing House founded in 1978, which pioneered children’s book publishing in Latin America. She is also President of the Banco del Libro, which won the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award in 2007 for their profound impact on children’s reading in Venezuela and other Latin American countries.
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Erza Jack Keats Foundation Speakheads Support of Programs Implemented by Public School Teachers and Librarians
From the official news release:
“Children need to learn, and they need to love learning. Instilled with a passion for acquiring knowledge for themselves,” states Dr. Deborah Pope, Executive Director of the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation,
After more than fifteen years in book publishing, Steven Chudney founded The Chudney Agency, specializing in children’s books. He is based is New York. Anita Loughrey interviewed him November 2007, as one of the speakers at the SCBWI Bologna Conference 2008 (scheduled for March 29 and March 30 in Bologna,
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Tracey Adams is co-founder of Adams Literary, which exclusively represents children’s book authors and artists. She founded Adams Literary in the U.S. in 2004. The agency is affiliated to David Higham in the U.K.
Anita Loughrey interviewed her, as one of the speakers at the SCBWI Bologna Conference 2008 (scheduled for March 29 and March 30 in Bologna,
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Jane Ann Peddicord‘s first book, Night Wonders, (a journey through the universe in poetry, pictures, and prose)(Charlesbridge, 2005), won the 2006 International Reading Association Children’s Book Award in the category of Primary-Nonfiction [interior spread].
That Special Little Baby, a picture book celebrating baby beginnings and toddler triumphs,
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Reminder: The SCBWI Bologna 2008 series debuts tomorrow at Cynsations! Check back for 32 insightful question-and-answer interview with agents, editors, authors, and illustrators about the U.S. and international youth publishing scene.
To register for the SCBWI Bologna Biennial Conference 2008, please visit http://scbwi.org/events.htm and click on SCBWI@Bologna. Queries? Bologna@SCBWI.org
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Jennifer Jaeger is an associate agent at Andrea Brown Literary Agency. Note: scroll here for biographical information.
What inspired you to become a literary agent?
My aunt writes, creates, and produces cartoons and other programming for children, and when I was a teenager, she would have me read scripts and ask me my opinion.
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Enter to win an advance reader copy of Jump the Cracks by Stacy DeKeyser (Flux, March 2008)! From the promotional copy: “Angry that her dad (once again) fails to be at the train station when she arrives in New York City, fifteen-year-old Victoria has had it with her divorced parents and their broken promises.
