One of my favorite speakers at the 2013 SCBWI winter conference was Mo Willems. No surprise, he’s also one of my favorite writers, and illustrators. Among the many witty, wise and irreverent pieces of writing advice he shared was this: “Be Invisible.” Hard to believe, but apparently,...
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Last week I started teaching the spring course in Childrens Literature for grad students in the MFA in Creative Writing and Literature...
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November is National Picture Book Month, and I thought I would contribute to the celebration with a list of ten of my...
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The second word in Jane Yolen’s list of ‘ten words every picture book author must know’ is Compression. It’s a good word,...
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Some picture books are narrative all the way through with no dialogue, and some are only dialogue with no other narrative, as...
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