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Getting published

Though she’d studied illustration in college, it took Grace Lin a while to get published.

Rejection

Luckily for Christopher Paul Curtis and his readers, his first manuscript was accepted.

It starts with a character

Jacqueline Woodson doesn’t begin her writing with an outline; instead she develops a character, starts writing, and sees where it all takes her.

Always a writer

As a young child, Cooper wrote plays for a friend’s puppet theater as well as writing for the school magazine.

Poetry and ELLs

Dr. Sylvia Vardell talks about what makes poetry a natural language learning tool for ELLs.

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