Author Interview: Cate Berry on Finding A Creative Rhythm & Thank You, Teacher!

By Gayleen Rabakukk

Spotlight image: Cate Berry writing in her 1967 Shasta camper.

Austin author and fellow VCFA alumnx Cate Berry has a new picture book, Thank You, Teacher, illustrated by Sara Varon (Balzer+Bray, 2023). I was eager to catch up with her and get her take on rhyming picture books,

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Guest Post: Lindsay H. Metcalf on Anxiety, Creativity & the Pandemic

Albert Whitman & Company

By Lindsay H. Metcalf

I came here to talk about science, advocacy, and truth—themes in my first three picture books, releasing this fall.

My picture books focus on empowering kids with foundations of:

  1. science (Beatrix Potter, Scientist, illustrated by Junyi Wu (Albert Whitman,

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