I’m thrilled to welcome Margarita Engle as our guest this week! In March, Margarita won the Nonfiction Golden Kite Award for her memoir Enchanted Air, a gorgeously-written account about growing up as a child of two cultures—the United States and Cuba. Enchanted Air has also won a Pura Belpré Award, a Lee Bennet Hopkins Poetry Award, and a […]
This is a different sort of What Was on… There will be no ‘what was on’ my reading list. No ‘what was on’ my post-its or top ten fears. This post is all about ‘what was on’ my mind for the past few years: Antagonists. I started thinking about antagonists when I was working on my … Continue reading
In the companion post, Enter: The Antagonist, no scratch that, Enter: The Antagonists, Plural, I talk about the 13 Antagonist Archetypes. Starting with Pure Evil and continuing to the Enemy Within, I explain who the different antagonists are and what they can do. Here, we are going to look at how we can romance these antagonists. This … Continue reading
Originally posted on Writing for Kids (While Raising Them):
Sandra’s puppy, Hailey by Sandra Nickel Last year was a little crazy. We brought home a new puppy. We had more guests than we’d had in the previous ten years combined. And, my daughter started a new school. By the end of October, I was desperate…
In honor of the Golden Kite Awards and the Society of Children’s Book Writer’s and Illustrators upcoming celebration of the winners, I’m thrilled to have John Parra as our guest this week! John won the prize for his incredible illustrations for Marvelous Cornelius: Hurricane Katrina and the Spirit of New Orleans, a heartwarming and inspiring story about a real-life New Orleans … Continue reading
I’m thrilled to welcome Margarita Engle as our guest this week! In March, Margarita won the Nonfiction Golden Kite Award for her memoir Enchanted Air, a gorgeously-written account about growing up as a child of two cultures—the United States and Cuba. Enchanted Air has also won a Pura Belpré Award, a Lee Bennet Hopkins Poetry Award, and a … Continue reading
It has been awhile since I’ve done a What Was on My . . . Life events—some wonderful and some less wonderful—kept me away. But, I was travelling last month and tripped across something fascinating that has sent me back to tell you about it. So, here is What Was on My . . . … Continue reading
