by admin | Oct 2012 | illustrators
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...
by admin | Jul 2011 | SCBWI
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...
by admin | Jul 2011 | SCBWI
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...
by admin | Jul 2011 | SCBWI
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...
by admin | Jul 2011 | SCBWI
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...
by admin | Jul 2011 | SCBWI
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...