MORE 'STEVE-SHEINKIN' POSTS
It’s back! It’s back! Steve Sheinkin’s regular series of conversations with great writers of books for youth has returned from its summertime hiatus. Steve has such a fantastic ear for the best parts of any dialogue, and considering the sheer amount of buzz that Ms. Heiligman’s novel Vincent and Theo has been garnering in 2017 […]
There is much to love in this latest edition to the Steve Sheinkin “Walking and Talking” oeuvre. Since today’s guest is Newbery Award winning author Rebecca Stead there are insights into her process. There is careful consideration of the act of writing, and what you chose to tell or not tell. And, most important of […]
This past Sunday you might have seen a review in the New York Times for Steve Sheinkin’s latest book Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team. In the event that it piqued your interest, you were familiar with the Radiolab episode on the same subject, or you simply like Steve Sheinkin (or […]
Steve Sheinkin is back with his beloved series! If you’re unfamiliar with it, Steve has a conversation with an author of books for kids or teens and then plucks from it the best parts. So in spite of the fact that he has a brand new book out in early 2017 (Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and […]
Recently I hosted a Literary Salon where an attendee asked at the end whether or not it was true that Kate DiCamillo deleted every draft she wrote, right after finishing it, so that she could rewrite it again. As it turns out, this isn’t exactly the case, but it did lead a lot of us […]
Here’s an idea for a series on this blog: Authors and illustrators paying tribute to other authors and illustrators in the form of fan art. Oh, it could work. Why do I think it could work? Because that’s what we’re doing today, folks. Consider the author Steve Sheinkin. You may know him from his award […]
There were many fine and fantastic works of nonfiction for older children and teens in 2015. One such book won the YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction Award while another won an Honor. Now those two authors chat about the process of creating narrative nonfiction. We’ve featured a fair number of Walking and Talking chats […]
Such a treat! So I’m finally reading Steve Sheinkin’s latest nonfiction work, Most Dangerous, and then out of the blue he sends me the latest in his “Walking and Talking” series. Dav Pilkey, Mr. Captain Underpants himself, is today’s subject. Fun Pilkey Fact You Never Knew: He has exquisite taste in cakes. True fact! Thanks […]
Steve Sheinkin returns once more to write up and illustrate his “Walking and Talking” series. As with other posts in the series, Steve will have a conversation with an author or illustrator and then pluck out and bring to life the parts that really define something about the process. Part of the reason I love […]
I’m happy to say that Steve Sheinkin’s “Walking and Talking” series is back in full swing. For those of you unaware of the Sibert winner’s predilection for drawing his conversations with his fellow literary luminaries, this is a bit of a treat. And for me, to see David Levithan fully drawn . . . well […]