What is Adventure Time and why does a cartoon matter in Creative Writing? How can we use it to stimulate our own work? First, let’s look at its concept and creation: According to series creator Pendleton Ward, the show’s style was influenced by his time at California Institute of the Arts and his work as…
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What Can a Crane Pick Up? by Rebecca Kai Dotlich and other great picture books
What makes a good picture book? Remember what it’s like to see spring for the first time? To get your first grown-up bed? To run in the park, on the beach, along the Brooklyn Promenade, and never want to slow down? To find sneezes hilarious and wrapping paper the best toy in the world? wrote…
BEAN DOG & NUGGET: Charise Mericle Harper Cooks Up Another Great Book Idea (plus three giveaways!)
This is an excerpt from an excellent blog entry by Charise Mericle Harper. The other day I was at my son’s book fair, talking with his teacher. A few of my books were included in the event, and she picked one up and flipped through it. All of a sudden she asked, “Where do you…
Seeds of Rebellion: The thrills continue in the second action-packed adventure in the Beyonders trilogy
The thrills continue in the second action-packed adventure in the #1 New York Times bestselling Beyonders trilogy. After the cliffhanger ending of A World Without Heroes, Jason is back in the world he’s always known—yet for all his efforts to get home, he finds himself itching to return to Lyrian. Jason knows that the shocking…
Young People's Pavilion 