One Smart Cookie: Bite-Size Lessons for the School Years and Beyond
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Kindergarten Diary: Author Antoinette Portis Q&A
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Author Interview: Robert Bauer
By Luisa LaFleur, The Children’s Book Review
Published: July 19, 2010
Robert Bauer
Robert Bauer is the author of the soon-to-be-released CJ in a Pickle. We reviewed it here.
Robert was kind enough to answer a few questions, here’s what he had to say.
TCBR: In preparing for this interview, I did a little background research and found that you’re an elementary school teacher and a proud dad to four children. Please tell us who inspired CJ, the main character in your first book, CJ in a Pickle? Read more
Wendelin Van Draanen Talks About Sammy Keyes
By Wendelin Van Draanen, for The Children’s Book Review
Published: June 4, 2010
The Children’s Book Review presents a guest post by Wendelin Van Draanen, author of the Sammy Keyes series. Her first book was published in 1997, and since then her titles have been nominated for State Award Master Lists all over the country. The Sammy Keyes Mysteries have been nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Children’s Mystery. Additionally, she has won the Christopher medal for Shredderman: Secret Identity, and the California Young Reader Medal for Flipped. Her books have been translated into many foreign languages, and have been optioned for film and television projects. Read more
Interview with Markus Zusak, Author of The Book Thief
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Author Interview: Annie Fox—Teen Self-Esteem
By Bianca Schulze, The Children’s Book Review
Published: May 4, 2010
May is National Teen Self-Esteem Month, a month dedicated to boosting confidence and self-image. Annie Fox, M.Ed., an award winning author and educator with 30+ years experience, sheds some light on how we, as parents and teachers, can help raise confident and secure teens.
Her books include: Be Confident in Who You Are, Real Friends vs. the Other Kind, What’s Up with My Family?, Too Stressed to Think? and The Teen Survival Guide To Dating & Relating. Read more
Author Showcase: Angela Sage Larsen
By Bianca Schulze, The Children’s Book Review
Published: May 3, 2010
Angela is the creator, author and illustrator of the well-known Petalwink book series for children (www.Petalwink.com) sold to bookstores, retail outlets, libraries, and schools throughout the country. She also writes the highly popular “flog” [fictional blog] chapter book series for tweens, the Fifties Chix, about the friendship of five time-traveling teen girls (www.thefiftieschix.com) and is working on multiple book series projects for children, teens and adults. Read more
Author Showcase: Dawne Knobbe, Author of Runaway Storm (D. E. Knobbe)
By Bianca Schulze, The Children’s Book Review
Published: March 11, 2010
Author Showcase: A place for authors and illustrators to gain visibility for their works.*
Bianca: Runaway Storm is the first book in a gripping adventure series. Can you tell us about it?
Dawne: When Nate’s father reneges on his promise to spend the summer kayaking with his son and his mother reveals her plans to stay in New York permanently, Nate feels let down and trapped.
He plots to sneak away to Vancouver, steal his father’s kayak, and journey through some nearby islands for a few weeks. Nate makes it to the islands and feeling confident in his survival instincts, he paddles off ready for some fun.
Inevitably, not all goes as planned, and with the help of a motley crew he meets along the way, including other runaways and a smart artistic “goth girl” with her own problems, Nate begins to come to terms with his parents’ separation and the awkward transition into adolescence.
Of course, these revelations may not come soon enough to help Nate survive a violent storm, deserted island, or a deadly smuggler in a broken-down boat… Read more
Author Interview: Dr. Molly Barrow
By Bianca Schulze, The Children’s Book Review
Published: February 24, 2010
Dr. Molly Barrow holds a Ph.D. in clinical psychology and is the author of Malia and Teacup Awesome African Adventure and Malia and Teacup Out on a Limb—an adventure series for ages 9 and up.
Bianca Schulze: You have a Ph.D. in clinical psychology and have worked in a private practice for over 20 years as a licensed mental health counselor and educator, at what point did you decide to add “writer” to your resume?
Dr. Molly Barrow: I have always enjoyed writing poetry and keeping a journal, but it was working on my doctoral dissertation that gave me the discipline to become a serious storyteller. I began by writing screenplays because I have the ability to see a film plot unfold in my mind. I wrote the Malia & Teacup books in screenplay form initially. As I am writing, I am laughing aloud and delighting in the awkward situations that I place my characters. Sometimes as I am writing, the plot shifts because the characters seem to take me in a new direction, a phenomenon that I do not completely understand, but enjoy immensely when it happens. Read more
Stephanie Meyer Talks About Twilight
