Writing for Kids Page

There are so many great chidren's books and resources out there!
Here are lists of some of my favorites.


"It's okay if we sit in our chairs or at our desks and computers for an hour or a day or a week
and have nothing to show for it. Ideas can take time to blossom." ~~ author Donna Napoli

 

Writing for Kids

CHILDREN'S PUBLISHING 101:

Major reviewers:
* Publishers Weekly
* Booklist
*School Library Journal
* Kirkus Reviews
* Horn Book Magazine

Major awarders:
* Newbery Medal - (honors writers)



* Caldecott Medal - (honors illustrators)



* National Book Awards



* Coretta Scott King Award



* Margaret A. Edwards Award



* Young Reader's Choice Award



* Parents’ Choice

* James Madison Book Award

 

SCHOOL TOUR GUIDES

*Toni Buzzeo & Jane Kurtz:
Terrific Connections with Authors, Illustrators, and Storytellers

 

MY FIRST PICTURE BOOK!

CHILDREN'S MAGAZINES

*American Girl
*Appleseeds
(8-10 yrs)
*Breakaway
(12-18 yrs)
*Calliope
(8-14 yrs)
*Campus Life
(13-19 yrs)
*Children's Digest
(10-12 yrs)
*Children's Playmate
(6-8 yrs)
*Cicada
(14-21 yrs)
*Clubhouse
(8-12 yrs)
*Clubhouse Jr.
(4-8 yrs)
*Cobblestone
(8-14 yrs)
*Cricket
(9-14 yrs)
*Highlights for Children
(2-12 yrs)
*Hopscotch
(6-12 yrs)
*Horsepower
(8-16 yrs)
*Humpty Dumpty's Magazine
(4-6 yrs)
*Jack And Jill
( 7-10 yrs)
*Ladybug
(2-6 yrs)
*Listen
(12-18 yrs)

*My Friend
(6-12 yrs)
*Odyssey
(10-15 yrs)
*Ranger Rick
(7-12 yrs)
*Spider
(6-9 yrs)
*Teen
(12-19 yrs)
*U.S. Kids
(5-10 yrs)

 

WEBSITES

*Children's Better Health Institute's
7 Kid's Magazines
*Highlights for Children
*Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators
*Pages Magazine
*School Library Journal
*The Bulletin
of the Center for Children's Books
*Children's Book Insider
*Publishers Weekly
*The Society of Illustrators
*Parents' Choice Foundation
*Postcards for Your Books
*The Children's Book Council

 

 

SOME OF MY FAVORITE
PICTURE BOOKS

(A) = author (I) = illustrator

*Keiko Kasza:
My Lucky Day

*Norton Juster (A)/Chris Raschka (I):
The Hello, Goodbye Window

*Eileen Spinelli (A)/Geraldo Valerio (I):
When You are Happy

*John J. Muth:
Zen Shorts

*Sheri Bell-Rehwoldt (A)/David Slonim (I):
You Think It's Easy Being the Tooth Fairy?

*David Wiesner:
Flotsam

*Karma Wilson (A)/Jane Chapman (I):
Bear Snores On

*Lane Smith:
John, Paul, George & Ben

*Chris Riddell:
Platypus and the Lucky Day

*Bill Grossman (A)/ Kevin Hawkes (I):
My Little Sister Hugged an Ape

*Laura Simms (A)/David Catrow (I):
Rotten Teeth

*David Shannon:
A Bad Case of Stripes

*Karen Kaufman Orloff (A)/David Catrow (I):
I Wanna Iguana

*Mary Jane Auch (A)/Herm Auch (I):
The Princess and the Pizza

*Mordicai Gerstein:
The Man Who Walked Between the Towers

*Mary Ann Hoberman (A)/Michael Emberley (I):
You Read to Me, I'll Read to You: Very Short Fairy Tales to Read Together

*Kate McMullan (A)/Jim McMullan (I):
I Stink!

*Barbara M. Joosse (A)/Giselle Potter (I):
Ghost Wings

*Janet Stevens (A/Il)/Susan Stevens Crummel (A):
And the Dish Ran Away With the Spoon

*Robie H. Harris (A)/Harry Bliss (I):
Don't Forget to Come Back!

*David Slonim:
He Came With the Couch

*Robert D. San Souci (A)/Rebecca Walsh (I):
The Well at the End of the World

*Tedd Arnold:
Even More Parts

*Rob Scotton:
Russell the Sheep


MY FAVORITE
MIDDLE GRADE BOOKS

*Douglas Evans (A)/John Shelley (I):
MVP*: *Magellan Voyage Project

*Madeleine L'Engle:
A Wrinkle in Time

*Victor Kelleher:
Dogboy

*Deborah Wiles:
Love, Ruby Lavender

*Jerry Spinelli:
Loser