A Ph.D. in Economics (The Ohio State University, 1974), J. Patrick Lewis (“Pat”) turned to children’s poetry at age forty.
He has since published 80 children’s poetry and picture books to date with Creative Editions, Knopf, Atheneum, Dial, Harcourt, Little, Brown, National Geographic,
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From Walker Books (U.K. edition)(available fall 2012)(online retailers listing Aug. 2):
Prepare for a hell of a ride as Cynthia Leitich Smith calls on
characters from her previous novels – and conjures up new ones – for a
climactic showdown.
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By Luke Reynolds
for Cynthia Leitich Smith‘s Cynsations
Over a decade ago, I worked as a wilderness guide in the stunning yet massively mosquito-ridden Adirondack Mountains as part of a program called La Vida—literally: The Life.
Two leaders would take groups of twelve high school students into the woods for two weeks—carrying all our food on our backs,
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Love, true love (1993).
By C.J. Omololu
I remember meeting my husband like it was yesterday.
I was an enthusiastic twenty-something on my first day at my new job in advertising for a San Francisco weekly newspaper. The building was filled with artsy, interesting people, and as I got the standard tour of my new offices,
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Julie Anne Peters is the author of 18 books for young adults and children, plus short stories in anthologies, and she looks forward to a new novel to be released in 2014.)
Her YA novel, Luna, was a National Book Award finalist, a Colorado Book Award winner,
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By Shana Burg
for Cynthia Leitich Smith‘s Cynsations
The idea for Laugh with the Moon (Delacorte, 2012) came from an experience I had when I was in graduate school for public policy. I did some work for a professor at the Harvard Institute of International Development.
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Enter to win a set of three author-signed children’s books, written by Jane Kohuth — Duck Sock Hop, illustrated by Jane Porter (Dial, 2012); Estie the Mensch, illustrated by Roseanne Litzinger (Random House, 2011); and Ducks Go Vroom, illustrated by Viviana Garofoli (Random House,
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I first met Medusa in a museum, probably the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, where I grew up. My parents, avid culture fiends, would take us to museums and some of my earliest memories are of the Greek and Roman statues at the Met.
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Enter to win a signed copy of Brendan Buckley’s Sixth-Grade Experiment by Sundee T. Frazier (Delacorte, 2012). From the promotional copy:
Brendan Buckley is headed to middle school, and he has lots of big questions. Will he be able to keep his green anole,
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Tina: What was the initial inspiration for Hanging Off Jefferson’s Nose: Growing Up On Mount Rushmore by Tina Nichols Coury, illustrated by Sally Wern Comport (Dial, 2012)?
Little did I know that homework, a funeral and a famous stained glass window would begin a journey towards publication that would last almost eighteen years.
