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Ezra Jack Keats Book Award for Muddy Illustrator Evan Turk!
Amazing news for Muddy illustrator Evan Turk! Another well-deserved award! And it's a big one! Here's an excerpt from the announcement: Deborah Pope, Executive Director of the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation, said, “It is a joy each year to recognize and encourage new...
Muddy Makes the Chicago Public Library’s 2017 Best Books for Younger Readers List and Wins a “Mock Caldecott” Honor!
What a great list chosen by great librarians (if I do say so myself!). You can see the "Best Informational Books for Younger Readers" list here. Muddy also earned one of CPL's "Mock Caldecott" honors this year, which you can read more about here. What wonderful honors...
Muddy Makes The Center for the Study of Multicultural Children’s Literature “Best of 2017” List
A true honor to be on the "Best of 2017" list of this respected and esteemed organization. Click here to see the whole list.
How LeBron James’ Chalk Toss Can Make You a Better Writer
As all athletes know, whether you’re getting ready for a basketball game or a short jog, you need to loosen up. But for elite athletes, just like writers, loosening up isn’t just about warming up the physical body; it’s also about preparing yourself mentally for what...
read moreHow to Think Like a Great Writer
Attitude is everything. You’ve heard it a thousand times. You’ve probably even said it yourself. And yet, sometimes a bad attitude still gets the best of us. Sometimes we hate our writing. Sometimes we hate our agents. And sometimes, maybe, we even hate ourselves....
read moreHow to Be a Better and Happier Writer
If you’re like me, you love writing. And…you hate it. Sometimes at the same time. We writers are full of contradictions when it comes to writing. We savor our alone time, yet we want to be loved by our peers. We want to create art, yet we want to be on the bestseller...
read moreHow Ray Bradbury Found His Voice and How You Can Too
Like most of us, Ray Bradbury was a lover of stories. Dime novels, comic books, anything with words. But as he wrote in his classic memoir on the craft of writing, Zen in the Art of Writing, this love of stories made it hard for him to find his own writing voice: “I...
read moreDeliberate Practice for Writers
REVIEW: How to Be a Writer: Building Your Creative Skills Through Practice and Play (Writer's Digest Books 2010). Over the last couple months, my goal has been simple: to engage in what Geoff Colvin, author of the book Talent is Overrated, calls “deliberate practice.”...
read moreMichael is an award-winning children’s author and produced screenwriter whose books have been recognized by the New York Times, New York Public Library, NPR, Parent’s Choice, the California Reading Association, and the Jr. Library Guild among others. His recent PB When Angels Sing: The Story of Carlos Santana won illustrator Jose Ramirez the prestigious 2018 Society of Illustrator’s Original Art Gold Medal.
News and Events
Ezra Jack Keats Book Award for Muddy Illustrator Evan Turk!
Amazing news for Muddy illustrator Evan Turk! Another well-deserved award! And it's a big one! Here's an excerpt from the announcement: Deborah Pope, Executive Director of the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation, said, “It is a joy each year to recognize and encourage new...
Muddy Makes the Chicago Public Library’s 2017 Best Books for Younger Readers List and Wins a “Mock Caldecott” Honor!
What a great list chosen by great librarians (if I do say so myself!). You can see the "Best Informational Books for Younger Readers" list here. Muddy also earned one of CPL's "Mock Caldecott" honors this year, which you can read more about here. What wonderful honors...
Muddy Makes The Center for the Study of Multicultural Children’s Literature “Best of 2017” List
A true honor to be on the "Best of 2017" list of this respected and esteemed organization. Click here to see the whole list.