Mary Amato is an award-winning children’s and YA book author, poet, playwright, and songwriter. Amato divides her time between writing and teaching writing — through classroom workshops and residencies, all-school assemblies, library programs, and teacher workshops. Amato has led writing workshops for children in poetry, song writing, fiction, mystery, and folktales, as well as workshops for teachers focusing on revision, creating character, and writer’s notebooks.
Find out why it’s a good idea for all kids to keep a diary, and get practical tips on writing and motivation for young writers from children’s author and writing coach Mary Amato.
Find out why it’s a good idea for young aspiring writers to keep a journal, and get practical tips on journal writing from children’s author and writing coach Mary Amato. She says, don’t forget to bring a writing journal everywhere you go!
Discover more than a dozen ideas for encouraging your child to write, including creative and simple ways to get the whole family involved. You’ll also find out how WOW stories can help unlock story structure for young writers.
Mary Ann Hoberman was named the Children’s Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation in 2008 and received the 2003 Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children from the National Council of Teachers of English. She is the author of more than 40 books for children, including A House Is a House for Me, which won the National Book Award, and the popular shared reading series, You Read to Me, I’ll Read to You. Whether writing about llamas in pajamas or a raucous auk, her poems celebrate the pure joy of language and reading aloud.
Mary Brigid Barrett is a children’s book author and illustrator; a professional educator; and the founder, president, executive director of the National Children’s Book and Literacy Alliance (NCBLA) — and a mom of three artistic and book-loving children.
