Each year, the Society of Children Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) honor the most outstanding children’s books of the prior year, called the Golden Kite Awards.  Unlike other such awards, winners of the Golden Kite are chosen by their peers.
Fiction: Home of the Brave by Katherine Applegate
Nonfiction: Muckrakers by Ann Bausum
Picture Book Text: Pierre in [...]

[Read more →]

Giving voice to those who no one will listen to is a great thing to do.  In fact, Dr. Suess did it in the Lorax.  Only thing is, Dr. Suess didn’t slap “Memoirs” on it.
In “Love and Consequences,” a critically acclaimed memoir published last week, Margaret B. Jones wrote about her life as a half-white, [...]

[Read more →]

Recently the National Endowment of the Arts (NEA) began a program called, The Big Read.  The idea behind The Big Read is to restore reading to the center of the American Culture.  Here’s a little excerpt from their Web site:
The Big Read answers a big need. Reading at Risk: A Survey of [...]

[Read more →]

You’re a writer, right?  Or at least you pretend to be one, correct?  Well then, you must be a reader as well.  If you’re not, then you smell.
And if you have the combination of being a reader and a writer, then chances are that you are rather opinionated.  You’ve got views, you do, and you [...]

[Read more →]