Category Archives: Awards

Guest Blogger: Dori Hillestad Butler

Posted on May 6, 2011 by

by Edgar Award Winning Author Dori Hillestad Butler Dori Hillestad Butler won the 2011 Edgar Award for Best Juvenile Mystery for The Buddy Files: The Case of the Lost Boy. She accepted the award at a gala banquet last week … Continue reading →

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Read widely, please.

Posted on November 22, 2010 by

Last week at a SCBWI conference, the editors told the crowd to read children’s books…not just write them. I said the same thing in my session. It’s important to read good writing in order to write well, but it is vitally … Continue reading →

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On the Road: The Sharjah International Book Fair

Posted on November 4, 2010 by

For the first time this year, we participated in the Sharjah Book Fair, which hosts nearly 800 publishing houses from around the world. We are regulars at Bologna, Frankfurt, and Beijing, but the Middle East is a new opportunity for … Continue reading →

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