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The Hunger Site. Please check out this very special link. My browser is set to go here first whenever I go on line. I click on the link and sponsors for the day each donate food to the United Nations World Food Program. I also try to click on the Child Health , Breast Cancer and Literacy sites everyday. Choose your own favorite charities. It only takes a minute or two. For links of interest to Quilters, see my Quilter's Links Page. Children's Literature General: Reading and Child Development: Booklists: People who want to write for children should check these out, too. Rule number one for writing for children is read, read, read. Directories of Authors and Illustrators: How A Book Is Made: Follow along with Aliki's book. Global Children's Art Gallery: See pictures by children from around the world. Send them one of yours. Part of The Natural Child Family Site. Just For Kids Who Love Books: Links to Authors with pages of interest to kids. KidPub: Submit your own stories and read the work of other young writers. The Young Writer's Club: A place where kids can share their writing. Stone Soup: A magazine written by and for kids. The Art Room: Wow! Great ideas for projects and "thinking like an artist". A fun site! Crayola Art Education: Lots of great ideas for using different art media. Great site for teachers and parents, too. The Internet Public Library's Youth Page: Links to some interesting sites. My Little House on the Prairie Home Page: I'm a big Little House on the Prairie fan. This site is a good starting place to learn about Laura on the web. Creative Writing for Kids: Leads to writing related activites for Beginners to advanced young writers. Kids Clubhouse: Fun Stuff, Reading Room, and Brain Teasers. Fairrosa's Cyber Library of Children's Literature's Reading Room: Links to many stories on line, mostly fairy tales and classics, some of them quite wonderful. Children Writing and Publishing: Kay Vandergrift lists resources for young writers who want to get published. The Children's Literature Web Guide: Well organized guide with links to many other sites including information for writers, illustrators, parents, teachers and librarians. Children's Book Council: Resource for parents, teachers, librarians and writers. Lists children's book publishers including publishing programs and submission policies. Kay Vandergrift's Children's Literature Page is a wonderful resource She teachers the subject at Rutgers. Five Owls: A publication for people personally and professionally involved in children's literature. Picture Books: Nicely organized page with links to authors, booklists, and on-line picture books. Reading and Child Development: I Am Your Child: Information about how the brain develops in the first three years of life. Links to many resources for parents and others interested in early childhood. Born to Read:How to Raise a Reader from the American Library Association. Helping Your Child Learn to Read: with activities for children from infancy through age 10 How to Help Your Child Learn to Read: Specific ways to help develop language and visual skills for the preschooler and beginning reader from the San Francisco School Volunteers. Good stuff! Children's Book Council: Suggestions for choosing books, new book lists and more. Children's Literature Web Guide: Lots of information about children's books including resources for parents. Parenting: Look up articles on parenting by topic and child's age. Parents' Place: Suggestions for helping children learn including Parent Resources for Reading/Language Arts and Tips for Helping Children to Become Active Readers. International Reading Association: A wonderful organization of professionals working to "increase literacy for all by improving the quality of reading instruction." Reading is FUNdamental: This organization has been promoting literacy for years by helping provide books and literacy resources for kids from birth to eleven years. Good Reading: Fairfax County Virginia Library’s extensive list of books arranged by age and subject. A great resource! Special Books to be Shared: Part of the Embracing the Child Site Groveland Elementary School has listed over 1300 books in their Accelerated Reader Program by reading level. Best Books: Links to numerous lists of award winning and recommended books. Lots of Lists: Includes more great recommended lists, banned book lists, and bibleographies by subject. Children's Literature Newsletter: reviews books with parents in mind. Hosted by ParentsPlace.com. Children's Writing Resource Center on the Web: Great site for people just getting started in writing for children by The Children’s Book Insider. The Purple Crayon: Harold Underdown's site includes a "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Publishing Children's Books" as well as lots of other helpful info and links. SCBWI: Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators-THE national organization for creators of children's books. Once Upon a Time: Newsletter for people who write for children. Poets & Writers: Their resources for writers section has info on conferences, workshops, writing programs, organizations, societies, presses, and magazines. Not specifically geared to writer's for children--but craft is craft. Centrum: I've made many of my friends at the Port Townsend Writer's Conference. There is some question whether they will continue to offer Children's Writing Workshops, but if you'd like them to, let them know. Tips For Writers: Including answers to questions about copyright. "To Market" by Susan Salzman Raab: Answers to questions about marketing from her column in the SCBWI Bulletin. Directories of Authors and Illustrators: Tell Me More! The Children’s Literature Web Guide's information about authors, illustrators and their books. Invite an Author to Your School: A list of authors who do school visits as well as some tips on making it a successful experience. Authors and Illustrators Source: Lists authors and illustrators who do school visits by geographical location and gives guidelines for planning an event. Learning About the Author and Illustrator: More than 600 author/illustrator sites on this list as of April 2003. Fairrosa's Cyber Library of Children's Literature Other Authors and Illustrators: A list from the Carr Library. Individual Author Pages: (Shh... this is actually a gossip column!) A fifth grade boy once asked me, "Since you are a published author, what other writers do you get to rub elbows with?" In case others are curious, the following list contains people with whom I have "rubbed elbows" at least once. Some are close friends, others acquaintances who I have enjoyed meeting--and I hope each of them would feel the same about me. (Some of the links put up by publishers may have expired, but I left the names on the list.) PS: If you are a writing or illustrating friend or acquaintance of mine and I haven't caught your web page, please let me know so we can link. Elizabeth Partridge: After being friends for years, Betsy and I have done a book together. Betsy read Whistling in a critique group the first summer we met, but she didn't feel it was ready. Several revisions later she let me illustrate it with hand-stitched fabric appliqued pictures and it has been published by Greenwillow Books. Her recent biography This Land is Your Land: The life and Songs of Woody Guthrie won many honors, as did her first, Restless Spirit: the Life and Work of Dorothea Lange. She has a number of fine picture books to her credit as well. We critique together in a small group we call the Frosters which started at Centrum Writer's Workshop in Port Townsend, Washington. Get to know this super special friend of mine by checking out her web page. Martha Weston: Martha, like Betsy Partridge was one of the Frosters critique and support group and a very dear friend. Unfortunately, she passed away suddenly in September of 2003. She illustrated over 60 books for children and wrote a number of picture books and easy readers including Cats Are Like That, Space Guys, Jack and Jill and Big Dog Bill, Annie and Bo and the Big Surprise, The Dinosaurs Meet Doctor Clock, and the posthumously published, Doctor Clocksicle. Her first novel, Act I, Act II, Act Normal was published shortly before her death. Martha also illustrated lots of famous stuff like Nate the Great, Curious George, and was co-illustrator of the Kate 'n Toady series in Spider Magazine. Her many friends still miss her greatly. Gary Hines: He's the other Froster. Maybe I should have put him first ...but then you can get to his page directly from my home page and he knows he's first in my heart. I love living, working, and traveling with another writer of children's books. Eve Bunting: I heard Eve speak at the first SCBW conference I went to back in 1974, heard her speak at the next one and have been a fan ever since. And now she knows me, too. A lovely lady! Sid Fleischman: Sid, I heard speak at the first conference I attended, along with Clyde Bulla and Don Freeman, who took me under his wing to give me great encouragement. Don didn't live long enough to see me get published, but Sid and Clyde have continued their support all these years. A warm, wonderful man. Paul Fleischman: We met Paul through a mutual friend, a newspaper reporter. Unfortunately, we don't seem to meet often, but we keep the "hellos" passing back and forth, and I continue to admire his writing. Jane Yolen: As well as publishing an impressive list of books in a wide range of genres, Jane has mentored an impressive list of people and I'm happy to be one of them. I took a workshop with Jane at the Centrum Writer's Conference in July of 1981 and sold my first book that November. She has been teacher, encourager and friend throughout my career. Jane has her own webpage now, eloquent and exquisite, but then what else would one expect from Jane? Bruce Coville: Bruce is one of the nicest guys you could ever want to meet. I met him when he was a teacher at Centrum. Gary was in class and I was a hanger on. He's witty, charming and has a ton of integrity. Paula Danziger: Paula and Bruce Coville helped Gary, myself, and Terri Cohlene (another Centrum writing friend), make fools of ourselves by singing a silly song at the SCBWI National Conference one year, and then Gary endeared himself further by helping rescue her from a computer crash at the SCBWI Pocono Retreat. A lot of fun, a great writer, and someone who really cares about kids. Paula passed away in 2004. Ashley Bryan: When Ashley Bryan was visiting a school in a nearby community I was invited to see the absolutely spell-binding presentation he does for children and join him for lunch. Wonderfully warm and intelligent man. We bumped into one another several times since. Jackie French Koller: I met Jackie in writing conferences in New England and now I've illustrated her story, Bouncing on the Bed for Orchard! Tom Birdseye: Tom is another Centrum buddy. I met him in the last class I took with Jane and then joined him and several others in forming our own group in the two summers following. Tom is a great storyteller and friend. Helen Ketteman: Helen is another Centrum friend who along with Kirby Larson was doing some collaborative writing with my husband Gary Nancy White Carlstrom: Nancy and I were in Jane Yolen's second Centrum class together back in 1981. A few years later I got a card from Nancy saying she had just sold a book called The Moon Came Too. I was about to submit a story I had written with the very same title. Her son and my daughter had both used that wonderful phrase. I changed my title to Sky All Around. Dian Curtis Regan: Another Centrum meeting, though we've seen each other many times since at SCBWI's National Conference. A dynamic prolific writer. Ted Pederson: Gary and I met this gentle fellow in Jane Yolen's Centrum Writer's Workshop--where I have made most of my writing friends. Ted may be quiet, but his books are adventurous and Ted is cyber-savvy. Tricia Gardella: Tricia and I used to live in the same "neck-of-the woods" until I moved to Pennsylvania. We met when I was asked to speak to a creative writing class at Columbia Junior College. Tricia called me afterwards for more advice, then took me to lunch to discuss the five rejections she got in one day. She went on to teach writing for children at CJC and head up a very active SCBWI Chapter, as well as getting some books published. Another place to find Tricia. Mary Whittington: Mary is champion of anything to do with children's literature and the people who create it. We've been together many times at Centrum and she did her dangedest to drum up students for me the year I taught there. She is all heart! Lauren Mills: Lauren was in the very first Centrum class I took with Jane Yolen back in 1981. Lauren was younger than most of us, and it took her a while, but she stuck to it and has illustrated several books. Vivian Sather:
Laurie Halse Anderson: Laurie and I met through the Eastern Pennsylvania Chapter of the SCBWI at their Pocono Retreat and other events. A funny and fun loving person. Laurie's first YA, Speak, is a National Book Award Finalist, a Printz Honor Book and got four...or was it five?... starred reviews. Yay, Laurie! Kay Winters: Kay is a prolific writer of picture books and poems. We run into each other often at Eastern Pennsylvania SCBWI events and other places where writers tend to gather. Sally Keehn: a writer whose work I admire. We've become friends through the Eastern PA SCBWI. Alexandria LaFaye: Alex writes, speaks and dresses with flair. I met her at the SCBWI Pocono Retreat and then joined her on the faculty of the MidAdlantic SCBWI Conference that she put together in Virginia. David Lubar has a great sense of humor and as editor of the Eastern PA SCBWI newsletter, Penn & Ink, I could always count on him for entertaining contributions. Dianne Ochiltree, another regular Penn & Ink contributor and a very sweet person, the kind who thoughtfgully sends me a note whenever she sees a mention of one of my books someplace. Robin Pulver: I met Robin at the SCBWI Pocono Retreat. She's a great person and her books are lots of fun. Mary Jane Auch: another Pocono Retreat friend and a multi-talented woman who writes picture books, middle-grade and does wonderfully vibrant and lively illustrations. Pat Brisson: Sue Alexander: If you know the SCBWI, you already know Sue, too. She was the very first member and soon found herself helping to organize the first National Conference, a job she continued to do until very recently. Sue is not only a writer she is an extraordinary teacher and supporter of writers and illustrators all across this country. Caroline Arnold: I met Caroline when we were both on faculty at the SCBWI National Conference. A great non-fiction writer. Ann McGovern: I met Ann when Ruth Bornstein invited the two of us to house for lunch when we all three on the faculty of the SCBWI National Conference. It's been so long ago, and I was such a relative beginner back then, that she may not even remember me. Jim Murphy: I met this nice fellow at SCBWI National and we have an editor in common--James Giblin. Lee Wardlaw: Another SCBWI person. I don't know her well, but we have had dinner in the same group and have mutual friends. Haemi Balgassi: We met though an e-mail children's literature group called the POD, and then at an in-person Pod gathering in New England. Jane Kurtz: Another POD acquaintance. I've occasionally had the pleasure of having Jane review my books and then met her in-person at SCBWI. Peni R. Griffin: We also met through the POD and it was Peni who really got my husband started creating my web-page. Toni Buzzeo: another POD friend, unpublished when we first met on line, but now she is a published children's book author. Way to go, Toni! Cynthia Leitich Smith: Another POD acquaintance, Cynthia not only has her own site, but also her own Children's Literature Resources with interviews, news other info. You can subscribe to her newsletter to get updates. Zilpha Keatly Snyder: We met when we worked together visiting schools in and around Eureka, Oregon. I'm especially fond of her Green Sky trilogy. Katherine Paterson: I've loved her books for years, heard her speak a couple times, but didn't meet her personally until recently in a group looking for ways to promote children's reading. Lots of integrity. Natalie Babbitt: I can say the same things about Natalie as I did about Katherine Paterson. Both are committed to the cause of promoting literacy and sparkle with fun. Kevin Henkes: Kevin is a fellow Greenwillow author and we have met at signings and Greenwillow gatherings. A nice friendly guy and right-on-target books. Jon Scieszka: Now this is really name dropping, because I only met Jon at a meeting of the literacy group mentioned above, and he probably didn't even catch my name. He's as much fun as his books-but serious about promoting literacy. Patricia MacLachlan: I've heard Patricia speak a number of times, always a good experience, then had a chance to meet her through a mutual friend, Jane Yolen. She's just as nice as her books would lead you to believe. Barry Moser: I had a chance to sit and chat with Barry at dinner one time at the Pocono Retreat, and heard him speak again in New England. My son-in-law Nathan had a class with him at RISD which he found very inspiring. Peter Sis: Peter and I signed books at the same table at Frank Hodge's Let the Reading Begin, a terrific children's literature conference in upstate New York. Hearing him speak was also a treat. Linda Joy Singleton: We were on the same faculty at a Central California SCBWI Conference'and although Linda's talk and personality are memorable what most endeared her to me was her mismatched shoes! It was so easy to see myself in the same situation. Walter the Giant Storyteller: Performer, entertainer, children's literacy advocate, educator. Walter is all these and more...that's what his webpage says. He's not actually a writer or illustrator, but I'm going to put Walter here anyway. My friend Susan Russel, owner of the Mountain Bookshop in Sonora, California, kept telling me for years that I needed to meet him. I finally did at a Northern California Booksellers Association Convention in 1995 and he told me that he had just given a talk in which he highly recommended my book, When the Goblins Came Knocking. Last time I saw him he told me he's using Pieces to kick off a poetry unit. It's always fun to run into Walter. Ashley Wolff: Ashley and I met at a couple of events in California many years ago. At the time we shared an editor and an art director. Ashley and the editor were connected on one wave length, the art director and I were on another, but Ashley and I got along just fine. Now we have a mutual friend in Martha Weston, one of my good Froster buddies. Mary Lyons: Interesting how often I use the word integrity to describe the authors I've met, isn't it. We a re a pretty committed group, who take kids and creating books for kids very seriously. I met Mary at the MidAlantic SCBWI Conference, and I'd use that word to describe her and I'd say she has a passion for her work. We also commiserated about being a certain age--actually I'm a few years ahead of her. Now that I've gotten to the end of the list of the websites I found, I'm feeling very remiss in leaving out some of my very wonderful, but less technologically advanced writing and illustrating friends. So I'm going to tell you about them, too. Some of them may have webpages by now, and you can certainly check out their books. Christine Widman Erica Silverman Barbara Golden is another person who was in the first Centrum class with me. She moved from Washington to Massachusetts, where I've seen her when visiting Jane. She has published a number of picture books with Jewish themes. Lindsey Barrett George If I've left anybody out, I'm sorry. Blame my memory, not my heart! HarperCollins, now the parent company of Greenwillow Books, my long time publisher. Harcourt Books: publisher of the Bean and Soup books as well as Whose Shoes? and Which Hat is That? Clarion Books: publisher of many of my most popular books and still home to an old favorite, Daddy Makes the Best Spaghetti. Candlewick Press: publisher of My Grandma is coming to Town. For lots more publishers see the Children's Book Council list of members. Home |
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