Illustrator Interview: Marla Frazee on Mrs. Biddlebox: Her Bad Day…And What She Did About It

Illustrator Interview: Marla Frazee on Mrs. Biddlebox: Her Bad Day…And What She Did About It

Marla Frazee is a children’s book author-illustrator. She teaches children’s book illustration at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California and works in a small studio cabin in the backyard under an avocado tree.

Could you please describe your path to publication, any bumps or stumbles along the way?

My path to publication?

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Editor Interview: Roger Sutton on The Horn Book

Editor Interview: Roger Sutton on The Horn Book

Roger Sutton on Roger Sutton: “I’ve been working with children’s books for about twenty-five years, beginning in 1980 as Zena Sutherland‘s assistant at the Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books. After getting my M.A. in library science from the University of Chicago, I worked in a variety of public library youth services positions and began book reviewing and writing about children’s literature and librarianship for a number of journals.

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Author Interview: Kathleen Duey on A Resurrection of Magic: Skin Hunger

Author Interview: Kathleen Duey on A Resurrection of Magic: Skin Hunger

Kathleen Duey on Kathleen Duey: “I don’t like writing bios; it’s is a self-conscious thing. I have always done it in third person. Everyone does, because that makes it easier to list your stuff and paint a small self-portrait. But it is also weird.

“This morning has so far contained puppy poo,

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Author Interview: Kerry Madden on Lousiana’s Song

Author Interview: Kerry Madden on Lousiana’s Song

Kerry Madden is the author the Smoky Mountain trilogy from Viking Children’s Books including: Gentle’s Holler (Viking, 2005), Louisiana’s Song (Viking, 2007), and the upcoming, Jessie’s Mountain. She is also the author of Writing Smarts from American Girl Library (2002). Her first novel, Offsides (Morrow, 1996), about growing up on the gridiron of college football was a New York Public Library Selection for the Teen Age in 1997.

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