Friend Friday
Dear readers of my blog: As most of you know, after many, many years of running this feature, today is my very last Friend Friday. Don't worry -- I haven't [...]
Friend Friday
I so appreciate Margo Sorenson's insights below, about the need to take a story from "oatmeal" to something special and unique. She does it through aloha spirit and puns, resulting [...]
Friend Friday
While I do not have an origami box for moving multiple minuscule creatures, I am famous for not killing spiders. "What if it's Charlotte?" I always ask. It is clear [...]
Friend Friday
I always enjoy hearing the story behind the story and Vicki Conrad's story behind her newest picture book biography is full of twists and turns, not unlike the swampy Everglades [...]
Friend Friday
Today's guest is my first ever international friend! Paddy Donnelly lives and works in Belgium though his Irish roots certainly inform his work. And his newest book-- a debut as [...]
Friend Friday
As much as I love celebrating my friends' work for Friend Friday, it is an especial delight to celebrate a debut book. And it is a delight to be reminded [...]
Friend Friday
On her website, Beth Anderson describes writing as mining -- "digging deep for memories, emotion, and meaning." Her essay below about creating her latest picture book feels like a miner's [...]
Friend Friday
What a way to kick off a new month: a joint Friend Friday post from two gifted creatives, Liz Garton Scanlon and Kevan Atteberry. Liz reminds us that the creative [...]
Friend Friday
One of my passions is to tell little-known stories of the past; clearly Shari Becker and Louisa Jaggar share that passion. They went to incredible lengths to tell the story [...]
Friend Friday
What a pleasure to celebrate author/illustrator Don Tate today! The experiences he shares below remind me a bit of the cruel experiments that inspired Gennifer Choldenko's Orphan Eleven, where kids [...]