This month, it's officially "Picture Book Month", during which published authors and illustrators discuss what it is they believe makes picture books important. It's also Picture Book Idea Month, during which more than 1,000 authors have signed on to read posts and try to brainstorm ideas for their own picture books.


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I'm a few days late in the wishing, but that doesn't make it insincere. Tomorrow is Guy Fawkes day and, more pertinent to current politics, perhaps, election day here in New Jersey ( Read more... )

I spent the month of November participating in Tara Lazar's Picture Book Idea Month. The goal was to come up with one idea for a possible picture book each day ( Read more... )

1. I met Julie Andrews yesterday. Yes, really. She was doing a signing at Children's Book World, and I'd ordered my copy of the poetry anthology edited by her and her daughter, Emma. My book is signed by the both of them, and I was thrilled to be able to tell her how very much I loved her book, MANDY, when I was a girl. Guess what? She appeared ( Read more... )

Today, I learned that Tara Lazar (whom I met earlier this year) is hosting something called "Picture Book Idea Month" (PiBoIdMo). This is the sort of thing that is right up my alley. None of this "write 1,666 words a day" business for me. Instead, Tara's November is dedicated to coming up with possible picture book ideas. She did it last year as a ( Read more... )