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Intern Insights: Highlights of SCBWI LA 2018

Intern Insights: Highlights of SCBWI LA 2018

Posted on September 13, 2018January 4, 2019

Lin Oliver interviews Lois Lowry at SCBWI L.A. Conference

By Gayleen Rabakukk

In August, I attended my very first SCBWI international summer conference. It was truly an amazing experience, but also a bit overwhelming with nearly 1,200 people in attendance.

Thankfully, we all share a love of children’s books,

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In Memory: Patricia C. McKissack

In Memory: Patricia C. McKissack

Posted on April 17, 2017January 4, 2019

By Gayleen Rabakukk

Patricia C. McKissack, honored children’s author from Chesterfield, dies at 72 by Jane Henderson
from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Peek: “…’I think my mother died of a broken heart.’ Fredrick McKissack Jr. said his mother and father were ‘best friends and partners.’”

Before becoming an author,

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About Cynsations.

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Cynthia Leitich Smith is a NSK Neustadt Laureate and a New York Times bestselling, award-winning author of books for young readers. Her latest titles are ANCESTOR APPROVED, which was an ALA Notable Children’s Book, SISTERS OF THENEVERSEA, which received six starred reviews, and HEARTS UNBROKEN, which won an American Indian Library Association’s Youth Literature Award.

Cynsations Staff: Publisher Cynthia Leitich Smith; Editor-in-Chief/Author’s Assistant Gayleen Rabakukk; Managing Editor Stephani Martinell Eaton; Intern Suma Subramaniam; Intern Bree Bender; Intern AJ Eversole; Industry News Reporter Gail Vannelli; and the Cynsational Reporters: Rebecca Kirshenbaum; Helen Kampion; Elisabeth Norton; Veeda Bybee; Clara Hammett; Michael Leali; Linda Joy Singleton.

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