Holiday Gift Guide With gift-giving season right around the corner, I thought it would be fun to come up with a gift guide based around a few of our fabulous members’ books. As the holidays are fast approaching, we would love to encourage you to support your favorite local indie bookstore when making a purchase! […]
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How To Build Connections In Read Alouds To Boost Literacy
Author and KidLit Works member Christina Shawn suggests tips for picture book read alouds that help boost kids’ literacy.
Something To Talk About — An Interview With Picture Book Editor Chris Krones
Welcome to KidLit Works everyone! Grab a beverage and join us for our Something to Talk About series this September. KidLit Works’ Marzieh Abbas reached out to one of her editors, Chris Krones at Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, for an interview. Let’s hear from our own Marzieh Abbas and her guest Chris […]
Three DO NOTs for Writers
For the KidLit Work blog post, picture book author Cheryl Kim offers three simple common sense pieces of advice to reduce the self-induced anxiety of writers.
Agent Lillian Mazeika Tells It Like It Is!
By Zainab Khan KidLit Works author Zainab Khan chats with Lillian Mazeika, an agent at the Tugeau 2 Art and Literary Agency about industry trends and other burning kidlit questions. Zainab: Thanks for joining us today, Lillian. Can you start by talking about current market trends?Lillian: In terms of trends, we are seeing more books […]