By Traci Sorell
Today I’m pleased to shine the Cynsations’ spotlight on Dana Wulfekotte, a fellow Epic Eighteen member. Her debut picture book, Rabbit & Possum (Greenwillow, 2018), features the antics of these two friends hoping to share a snack but having to overcome an obstacle first.
Continue Reading New Voice: Interview & Giveaway: Dana Wulfekotte on Rabbit & Possum »
Lee Francis IV
By Traci Sorell
Lee Francis IV is CEO/Publisher of Native Realities, owner of Red Planet Comics & Books store in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Organizer of Indigenous Comic Con.
Native Realities swept the Middle Grade category of 2018 award winners from the American Indian Library Association.
Continue Reading Interview: Lee Francis IV on Native Publishing, Bookstores & Indigenous Comic Con »
Lindsey Stoddard is a Vermont College of Fine Arts alum and our time there overlapped, so I jumped at the chance to interview her about her debut middle grade novel, Just Like Jackie (HarperCollins, 2018). From the promotional copy:
For as long as Robinson Hart can remember,
Continue Reading New Voice: Lindsey Stoddard on Just Like Jackie »
Lean more about Cartoonist and Teacher Gene Luen Yang.
Welcome to Cynsations. We last spoke to Dean Mary Francoise Rockcastle about the Hamline MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults back in 2006.
When did you join the faculty? What appealed to you about teaching in a low-residency program?
By Cynthia Leitich Smith, Robin Galbraith,
Gayleen Rabukukk & Kate Pentecost
Author/Illustrator Insights
The 3 Different Audiences Cherie Dimaline Wrote the YA Novel The Marrow Thieves For from CBC. Peek:
“I’m getting asked these incredibly insightful,
I walk into a classroom at the extraordinary early childhood center where I work, and watch a teacher kneeling or sitting at the height of one of her two-year-olds, one hand holding his, eyes meeting eyes.
Noah, I can see you’re having a hard time finding a way to play with Ari.
Guillermo del Toro
(image from The Shape of Water media kit)
Academy Award winning director Guillermo del Toro has been My Boy for a long time, way before his monster romance The Shape of Water took home Best Picture and Best Director at the 90th annual Academy Awards ceremony and was nominated for scores of others.
By Traci Sorell
I’m delighted to feature Brad Wagnon, a fellow Cherokee Nation citizen and author of The Land of Great Turtles (Rowe Publishing, March 2018). He is joined by Alex Stephenson, the book’s illustrator.
I met Brad a few years ago in Tahlequah through his work for the tribe. Continue Reading Interview: Author Brad Wagnon & Illustrator Alex Stephenson on The Land of the Great Turtles »
By Dana Carey
for SCBWI Bologna 2018 and Cynthia Leitich Smith‘s Cynsations
Note: This interview is the second in a series focusing on the Bologna Children’s Book Fair.
SCBWI International Illustrator Coordinator Dana Carey talks with those who judged the Bologna Illustration Gallery.
Continue Reading Guest Interview: Dana Carey & SCBWI Bologna Illustration Gallery Judges »
By Dina von Lowenkraft
for SCBWI Bologna 2018 and Cynthia Leitich Smith‘s Cynsations
Note: This is the first in a series of interviews focusing on the Bologna Children’s Book Fair.
SCBWI Belgium + Luxembourg
