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“I became a writer because I was, and still am, a reader,” says Linda Sue Park, an award-winning author and Newbery Medalist for A Single Shard (Clarian Books, 2001). As a young child, Park began [...]

“I always dreamed of being a writer,” confesses Lois Lowry, an award-winning author of literature for young people. That dream, however, was placed on hold as she, like so many others [...]

One of the most creative, award-winning authors and illustrators of children’s books actually never thought much about the medium until he and his wife, Robin Page, started having children. Both [...]

“I wasn’t much of a reader growing up,” says Katherine Applegate, the award-winning author of The One and Only Ivan (2012, Harper). “It is not that I didn’t read; I just wasn’t one of those [...]

“Until seventh grade, I did not read. I hated reading,” says Mark Fearing, an award-winning author/illustrator. “In seventh grade, my teacher brought me a copy of Ursula K. Le Guin’s A Wizard of [...]

David LaRochelle, an award-winning author and illustrator, didn’t always want to be a writer. “When I was very young, what I wanted to be was a dragon. Then I realized that was not a possible [...]

Jordan Sonnenblick always knew he wanted to be a writer; well, a writer AND a teacher just like his grandfather. A high school biology teacher and an author of high school biology texts, [...]

Lauren Stringer is a well-known illustrator of children’s books who began her creative adventures with crayons. “As soon as I beheld the wonders of what a crayon could do on paper, I wanted to be [...]