Wonderful to see May B. included here!
35 Middle-Grade Books with Neurodivergent Characters :: Afoma Umesi
“A lightbulb went off for the 28-year-old, who grew up surrounded by horses on her family farm. Gooch established Saddle Up and Read that year with the mission to get more books to kids, using her childhood horse, Goat, as the magnet to draw kids into her book drives.”
This woman is mending the literacy gap with the help of a horse named Goat :: 19th News
“A recent column in the Washington Post titled Will my grandkids still love me if I buy them nonfiction? by Jay Mathews immediately caught our attention. As nonfiction writers for young readers, we were dismayed—though not surprised—by Mathews’s assumption that ‘the books students choose to read are almost always fiction.’ We frequently encounter adults who mistakenly believe that children think ‘Textbooks. Ugh,’ as he writes, when they hear ‘nonfiction.’”
Hey, Grownups! Kids Really Do Like Nonfiction :: Publisher’s Weekly
“What I’m seeing here? A lot of encouragement and perseverance. While it’s true that approximately 20% ended up landing an agent or publishing their first manuscripts, between 38 and 43% of writers ended up breaking through on their 5th through 9th manuscript, or even their tenth+ manuscript! That’s the majority of responders to the survey.”
How to Write a Manuscript that Succeeds :: KidLit.com
“But how, exactly, do you keep readers on the edge of their seat when there’s a gap of days or weeks between one letter and the next? When the characters are sequestered in their far-flung corners of the world, never close enough to swing a fist or bestow a kiss, how do you create any real tension between them?”
All Epistolary Novels are Mysteries :: Crime Reads
“Expanding your reading outside of what you write or work on also expands your mind into thinking in different ways. It’s growth and it’s vital to career success.”
Read Widely, It’s Vital to Your Career :: Book Ends Literary
A few in honor of Norton Juster, author of The Phantom Tollbooth
Thank you, Norton Juster, for creating the best middle grade book that ever was. You will be missed!
Obituary: Norton Juster :: Publisher’s Weekly
“I like to think of myself as indifferent to celebrity; nevertheless, awe strikes now and then. Once, it hit when I got to interview Norton Juster, the author of The Phantom Tollbooth, who died Monday at the age of 91. He was short and round and jolly and clever and kind—exactly the person my child self, for whom Phantom was an adored book, would have wanted him to be. My adult self, who knew all too well how seldom meetings with the authors of beloved books live up to expectations, was dazzled.”
Six Things All Writers Can Learn from The Phantom Tollbooth :: Slate
“A poem by Jane Yolen in remembrance of her friend Norton Juster (1929-2021).”
Norton Passes Go :: The HornBook
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