By Janet Nolan
I admit it.
I have a favorite sandwich. It’s peanut butter and jelly.
Loved it when I was a kid, and I still do.
So, when I first started thinking about writing a picture book that examined where our food comes from, I didn’t have to look any further than the ingredients in my favorite sandwich: peanut butter,
From the promotional copy of Born To Be Wild: Baby Mammals and Their Parents by Lita Judge (Roaring Brook, 2014):
What do grizzly bear cubs eat? Where do baby raccoons sleep? And how does a baby otter learn to swim?
Every baby mammal,
The seed of The White House is Burning: August 24, 1814 (Charlesbridge, 2014) was planted on 9/11.
Sometime during that day, as we all tried to get a handle on what had happened, a TV reporter compared the terrorist attacks with other national tragedies like Pearl Harbor.
By Chris Barton
There’s never an answer I that I find quick, simple, and faithful to the full truth when someone asks what inspired one of my books.
Take Shark Vs. Train (Little Brown, 2010), for instance.
Yes, I’m sure the seed was planted by my now 15-year-old son’s love of sharks and trains.
Continue Reading Guest Post: Chris Barton on Writing & Cross-Generational Interests »
Yosemite’s Songster: One Coyote’s Story, by Ginger Wadsworth, illustrated by Daniel San Souci (Yosemite Conservancy, 2013). From the promotional copy:
A sudden rockslide in Yosemite Valley in California’s Sierra Nevada separates Coyote from her mate.
Readers journey throughout the valley observing its many famous landmarks on four paws with Coyote.
Continue Reading Author Interview: Ginger Wadsworth on Yosemite’s Songster: One Coyote’s Story »
By J.L. Powers
What would your life be like if it felt like you were looking into a kaleidoscope every time you opened your eyes?
What would it feel like to experience strange visions twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, even at night when you dream?
That’s what happened to George Mendoza when he started going blind as a teenager.
David Zeltser is the first-time author of Lug, Dawn Of The Ice Age: How One Small Boy Saved Our Big, Dumb Species (Egmont, 2014). From the promotional copy:
In Lug’s Stone Age clan, a caveboy becomes a caveman by catching a jungle llama and riding it against the rival Boar Rider clan in the Big Game.
Continue Reading New Voice: David Zeltser on Lug, Dawn Of The Ice Age »
Jon & Mac
By Mac Barnett & Jon Klassen
Mac: Hi, Jon!
Jon: Oh! Hi Mac!
Mac: And hello, Cynsations readers. We have taken over the blog today.
Jon: Yes.
Mac: We are using our power to just post this gchat we are having into the blog.
