MORE 'GUEST-POSTS' POSTS
Today we welcome newly minted Newbery Honor winning author Chrstian McKay Heidicker to talk about his latest book. And no. It does not involve a psychotic Beatrix Potter . . . . yet.
When My Brother Gets Home has already bagged a couple starred reviews and it's coming out today. To celebrate, creator Tom Lichtenheld gives us a bit on the backstory of how it all went down.
The other day publisher and author Marissa Moss of Creston Books sent me an interesting query. We all know that the bar has risen for nonfiction authors and even, to a certain extent, illustrators of children's books. But what is the role of the publisher in all this? A guest post on accuracy in nonfiction.
The students of Marc Aronson's Rutgers Masters's class on Young Adults, Reading, and Literacy set out to curate resources for high school students related to immigration. Take a look at them for yourself and pass them on to a teacher you know.
86% of translations are published by small presses. What is the state of children's literature today and how should it change? David Jacobson guests with some answers.
Guest Post: Doing Impossible Things: Ideas for Supporting Children in Foster Care by Lindsay Lackey
|Today I'm bowing out and letting an author with some chops take the reins. Ms. Lindsay Lackey, to be precise. As you may be aware, she has a book out this year called All the Impossible Things. To write this book, Lackey was inspired by her aunt and uncle. Today she talks a bit about them, and about the simple, small acts that you can do to uplift a child in foster care.
Guest post author/illustrator Brian Lies discusses the choices he made to both art and text when creating GOT TO GET TO BEAR'S!, and the implications and importance of gender choices in even the sweetest of picture books.
Dr. Ellen Handler Spitz is back! Today’s guest post celebrates a picture book classic, now back in print after decades of disappearance. Dr. Spitz puts the book in the context of not just its times but the canon of children’s literature itself. It’s too marvelous not to share widely. Consider it your required reading of […]
You guys know my penchant for children’s books that fall outside the usual norms. And nothing strikes fear in the good American heart faster than picture books from other countries. I’ve seen even the most sophisticated of readers wrinkle their noses at translations they deemed “weird”. And nothing caused such wrinkling better than the 2016 […]