New beginnings

What’s the connection between these two images?The first is Grandma Poss from Possum Magic.The second is Queen’s Hall, part of the original building of the State Library of Victoria.Grandma Poss has most recently been resident in the gardens of Dromkeen, a...

Welcome Deborah Underwood!

Deborah was the SCBWI Crystal Kite Winner for California/Hawaii.Deborah Underwood worked as a street musician, puzzle writer, jewelry maker, and administrative assistant before embarking upon her career as a children’s author. Her books include The Quiet Book, A...

Welcome Tammi Sauer!

Tammi won the 2011 SCBWI Crystal Kite for Texas/Oklahoma. Children’s book author Tammi Sauer has sold nine picture books to a number of major publishing houses: Bloomsbury, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Simon & Schuster, and Sterling. Bernadette was mostly...

Welcome Kathryn Erskine!

Kathryn was the Crystal Kite winner for Pennysylvania/Delaware/New Jersey/Wash DC/Virginia/West Virginia/ Maryland for her novel MockingbirdKathryn Erskine, a lawyer-turned-author, grew up in six countries, an experience that helps her view life, and her writing, from...

Welcome Marsha!

Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch’s novel Stolen Child is the Crystal Kite Winner for the Americas, which encompasses Canada, Mexico, Central and South America.She has received numerous awards and honours for her dozen-plus children’s books.In addition to receiving...

Welcome Ann Angel

Crystal Kite Winner for Minnesota/Iowa/Nebraska/Wisconsin/Illinois/Michigan/Indiana/OhioAnn Angel believes it was amazing fortune that brought Janis Joplin’s music and style into her life when, as a teen, she preferred writing bad poetry and drawing to Janis’s songs...