Guest Post: Writing Across Gender Lines: Fiction that Appeals to Boys and Girls

Guest Post: Writing Across Gender Lines: Fiction that Appeals to Boys and Girls

By Yona Zeldis McDonough

I’ve alway thought of myself as a girly-girl writer. Although I’ve written bios for kids that appeal to both boys and girls—many of them in the popular Who Was series (Grosset & Dunlap) —my real love is girl-friendly stories. I like dolls—no fewer than five of my children’s books have had the words doll or doll house in the title—and all the girly stuff that goes with them.

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10 Award-Winning Authors/Illustrators at AJL Convention

10 Award-Winning Authors/Illustrators at AJL Convention

From ALJ: Ten award-winning authors and illustrators who create books for children and teens will appear at the 42nd Annual Convention of the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL), scheduled for June 17 to June 20. All ten received recognition this year from AJL’s Sydney Taylor Book Award Committee, which awards the best in Jewish children’s literature.

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Author Interview: Brenda A. Ferber on Julia’s Kitchen

Brenda A. Ferber on Brenda A. Ferber: “I grew up in a happy home in Highland Park, Illinois, the third of four children. I attended the University of Michigan and created my own honors major called, ‘Creative Writing for Mass Media.’ It was basically a combination of creative writing, film/video, and communications classes.

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