Blogger: Etta Wilson
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A sentence on page 20 in Publishers Weekly‘s recent July 19 issue on children’s books for this fall caught my eye: “…It’s unclear whether parents will fork over the money…
Read More...By Etta Wilson on Jul 29, 2010 in Blog, Children's books | 9 Comments
Blogger: Etta Wilson
Location: Books & Such Nashville Office
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Being a kids book’ advocate, I don’t think you can start little ones too early in grasping new experience from a book. Well, maybe I draw the line with prenatal…
Read More...By Etta Wilson on Jul 28, 2010 in Blog, Children's books | 11 Comments
Blogger: Etta Wilson
Location: Books & Such Nashville Office
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A recent quote in Newsweek from Anna Quindlen caught my eye: “Well, what is a book really? Is it its body or its soul?” I think that was her way of…
Read More...By Etta Wilson on Jul 27, 2010 in Blog, Children's books | 3 Comments
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The title for this post has a broader meaning than at first may come to mind. As I read the summer movie listings, review publishers’ offerings of games, and receive…
Read More...By Etta Wilson on Jul 26, 2010 in Blog, Children's books | 21 Comments
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After writing about words for three days, I’ve realized that the hardest writing may be description–not dialogue–because description is more visual. It calls for painting pictures with words, and that’s really…
Read More...By Etta Wilson on Jun 24, 2010 in Awards, Blog, Children's books, Writing Life | 8 Comments
Blogger: Etta Wilson
Location: Books & Such Nashville Office
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Young readers’ enthusiasm still thrills me. From the time most of them first discover they can decipher those symbols on the page and glean meaning from them, they are in…
Read More...By Etta Wilson on May 27, 2010 in Blog, Children's books | 24 Comments
Blogger: Etta Wilson
Location: Books & Such Nashville Office
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Recently an author asked me how many poems she should include in a manuscript for a picture book of poetry. I had no idea how to answer until I…
Read More...By Etta Wilson on Apr 27, 2010 in Blog, Children's books, Reading, Writing Life | 5 Comments
Blogger: Michelle Ule
Location: Holding down the fort in Santa Rosa while everyone else attends the Mount Hermon Christian Writer’s Conference.
“I don’t know why you kids bother to read fiction,” said Mrs. Klocki, my eighth-grade history teacher. “You should read history! …
Read More...By Michelle Ule on Mar 29, 2010 in Blog, Children's books, Reading | 4 Comments
Blogger: Etta Wilson
Location: Books & Such Nashville Office
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I’m still thinking about all those junior high students in the “Letters to Authors” contest I was judging last week –I’ve blogged a bit about their responses on gender…
Read More...By Etta Wilson on Jan 28, 2010 in Blog, Children's books, Life | 8 Comments
Blogger: Etta Wilson
Location: Books & Such Nashville Office
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In Monday’s post on judging the “Letters to Authors” written by junior high students, a couple of other items caught my attention. One of those was the large number of…
Read More...By Etta Wilson on Jan 27, 2010 in Blog, Children's books, Reading, Writing Life | 8 Comments
