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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 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

It is six o’clock in the morning, and Jon Klassen is lying awake. He knows he has to catch a plane shortly and must get moving to be ready for the taxi cab. Suddenly, the phone rings. On the [...]