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Check out the Liar’s Moon trailer here!
CROSSING THE TRACKS won the 2011 Writer’s League of Texas Award for Best Book for Young People! Find out more here: http://www.writersleague.org/contests/book-awards.htm
It’s a Boy! With a mustache! Bridget Brewster Heos announces the sale of her first fictional picture book, MUSTACHE BABY, to Daniel Nayeri at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt! Congratulations, Bridget! Find out more about her at http://greetingsfromwaldo.blogspot.com/
Anola Pickett is pleased to announce the Kansas City launch of her historical middle grade novel Wasatch Summer will be Friday, May 20 at our wonderful independent bookstore The Reading Reptile. She also will answer questions about “Writing Believable Historical Characters” during ICL’s Writer’s Retreat next week, April 19-21. Drop in and ask her a question at institutechildrenslit.net.
Join SCBWI’s Regional Advisor and Advisory Committee at Jayhawk Central’s coffee shop on the KU Edward’s Campus for a meet and greet open house. Ask all your questions about children’s writing, publishing, and Twitter but have been too afraid to ask…until now. Plus donuts and coffee! FREE! And because it’s an Open House, you can come anytime you want between 1 pm and 4 pm.
Register here so we know how high to stack the donuts. Thanks!
On February 18, Heartland authors Charlotte Adelsperger, Bridget Heos, Anola Pickett and Colleen Ryckert Cook spoke to fourth and fifth graders at Mill Creek Elementary as part of their Creative Communications Workshop. The annual workshop also featured Mary Anne Demeritt, Darlene Isaacson, Chris Koppenhaver, John Martellaro, Jesse Miguel, Steven Mirakian, Julanne Patrick, Connie Richards, Yvonne Rosser and Jill Silva. Thanks to the parents and students at Mill Creek! We had a blast!
Colleen Cook, Charlotte Adelsperger,
Bridget Heos and Anola Pickett
Barbara Stuber’s young adult debut Crossing the Tracks is one of five finalists for the American Library Assocation’s William C. Morris Award! The winner will be announced at the ALA’s Midwinter Conference. Congratulations Barb and Iris!
Join us as we toot horns and spray silly string all over Barbara Stuber and Elizabeth C. Bunce! The Young Adult Library Services Association, part of the American Library Association, nominated their books for the 2010 Best Fiction for Young Adults. In Stuber’s debut novel, Crossing the Tracks (Margaret K. McElderry) 15-year-old Iris finds a home in the unlikeliest of places. The historical fiction is set in rural 1920s Missouri. StarCrossed (Arthur A. Levine Books) is Bunce’s second novel. The historical fantasy novel features spunky heroine Digger, a thief who gets caught up in the political machinations of a society that forbids magic. See all the nominees here.
Anola Pickett’s middle grade novel WASATCH SUMMER will be published by Cedar Fort in April 2011. Pickett’s historical fiction is based on the true story of a young pioneer girl whose family sent her high into the mountains of Utah to tend the family’s sheep. Young Hannah endures loneliness with the help of some Blackfoot who have settled on the mountainside for the summer. The dangers are real, but Hannah finds her own strength as her family struggles to survive. Order your copy today!
