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For those of you who don’t know, every year there are thousands of people who participate in National Novel Writing Month, a.k.a. NaNoWriMo. The Goal: to write 50,000 words during the month of November. NaNoWriMo has grown over the years, and now includes a special section just for young writers. I participated . . .
November may be NaNoWriMo month for some, but it’s also Picture Book Month and Picture Book Idea Month (PiBoIdMo). Picture Book Month is an international literacy initiative that celebrates the print picture book during the month of November. Every day in November, there is a new post from a picture book champion explaining why he/she thinks . . .
I’ll bet some of you hadn’t heard about the time-honored tradition of All Hallow’s Read, whose origins some scholars have traced back as far as this Neil Gaiman post. Basic idea: In the week of Halloween, give someone a scary book. Here are just a few deliciously scary books for young . . .
Although I primarily illustrate using digital methods (Photoshop CS6 with a 7.5″ x 11″ Intuos Wacom tablet), I’m starting to experiment more with non-digital media on the side. Partly because I like to always be learning something new, to try different techniques, but also because I’m often inspired to try . . .
What was in my swag bag from the TD Canadian Childrens’ Book Centre Awards event Had a great time celebrating Canadian children’s books at last night’s TD Canadian Children’s Book Centre Awards gala! This was my second time attending the event, and it was just as fabulous as last year’s. Lots of . . .
International Caps Lock Day began as a parody holiday by Metafilter user Derek Arnold but has since been embraced by one and all. Well, at least by one. 🙂 See more WWFC strips at my Will Write For Chocolate blog.
Last week on Twitter and Facebook, I asked how many books people were reading right now. I specified books that you were at least partway through and planned to keep reading within the next month. What I hadn’t taken into account: the number of editors out there — several of . . .
I’ve always been a fan of online communities, and used to be all over the virtual world of Second Life. I rented a virtual cottage, bought virtual land, built a virtual community for writers where I had an educational center that included resources for aspiring children’s book writers: With the SCBWI’s blessing, . . .
Title: AFRICA IS MY HOME: A CHILD OF THE AMISTAD Author: Monica Edinger / Illustrator: Robert Byrd Publisher: Candlewick Press, October 2013 Recommended age range: 10 and up How I wished a book like AFRICA IS MY HOME: A CHILD OF THE AMISTAD existed back when I was a student. Although I . . .