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Suzanne Lieurance is a former classroom teacher, now a freelance writer, children's author, speaker, and The Working Writer's Coach. She is the author of over 20 published books for children. Lieurance is also the founder and director of the National Writing for Children Center and the Children's Writers Coaching Club.
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Children’s author and illustrator Julie Scandora will be my guest today on Book Bites for Kids, LIVE on blogtalkradio at 2:00 central time.
She’ll talk about her new book, Rules Are Rules.
Dayna Hilton, firefighter and author of Sparkles the Fire Safety Dog will be my guest today on Book Bites for Kids.
Yesterday, my guest on Book Bites for Kids was author Brandon Mull.
We had several people call in during the live show.
Carma Dutra from California won a hardback copy of The Candy Shop War.
Sarah Brown from Montana won a hardback copy of Fablehaven, Grip of the Shadow Plague - Book Three.
Congratulations to Carma and Sarah, and thank you both for calling in during the show!
My guest on Book Bites for Kids, LIVE at 2:00 central time this afternoon on blogtalkradio will be Jeanie Franz Ransom, author of What Do Parents Do? (when you’re not at home).
Listen to the show at www.blogtalkradio.com and call in to make a comment or ask a question at 1-646-716-9239.
My guest today on Book Bites for Kids will be New York Times best selling author Brandon Mull.
Call in during the show to ask a question or make a comment at 1-646-716-9239 - and you just might win a copy of his book, Fablehaven or The Candy Shop War or one of many other prizes.
Find out more about Fablehaven by visiting www.fablehaven.com.
Listen to Book Bites for Kids, LIVE on blogtalkradio.com today at 2:00 central time when my guest will be children’s author Margaret Park.
Call in to ask a question or make a comment during the live show at 1-646-716-9239.
Park will talk about her new picture book, Now for My Next Number!
Ever forgotten the ABC song? Songs learned in childhood are remembered for a lifetime. Now for my Next Number! presents a collection of colorful, easy-to-sing, easy-to-memorize songs that will help children practice and learn multiplication. Each song features a number and its multiples and tells a story in rhythm, rhyme, melody and pictures, making math a lively and multi-sensory activity.
Imaginative full color illustrations set the scenes and show coherent groupings of objects that show the number and the number of times it is multiplied. By counting the objects in the pictures children will understand how each multiplication product is derived. Original music and vocals on the CD will have children singing along and effortlessly absorbing the multiples of each number.
When it’s time to know the times tables in school, children will already know the answers and have an easy way to practice while singing these songs.
Recently children’s author Carma Dutra interviewed me and also reviewed my new book, The Locket, Surviving the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire at her blog.
Visit her blog called Carma’s Window to read the interview and the review.
You’ll also find a wealth of other resources for children’s writers there.
If you have questions about writing and publishing for children, this week is your chance to get answers to those questions.
The rest of this week, Harold D. Underdown will be my guest on Book Bites for Kids, every afternoon at 2:00 central time on blogtalkradio.com.
Underdown is a children’s book editor, working as a consulting editor at present. Previously, he was Vice President and Editorial Director at ipicturebooks. Before that, he was editorial director of the Charlesbridge trade program, and he has also worked at Orchard Books and Macmillan. Underdown is the author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Publishing Children’s Books, now in its third edition. He speaks at conferences, provides editorial services to publishers and authors, and maintains an informative web site about children’s publishing called The Purple Crayon.
On today’s show (Tuesday) Underdown will talk about who he is and what he does, plus he’ll give plenty of information about writing and publishing for children.
On Wednesday he’ll cover basic information any writer needs to know to get started as a children’s writer.
On Thursday, he’ll discuss what happens after a writer signs a contract with a publisher and what it is like working with a publisher.
On Friday, he’ll talk about what’s going on right now in the world of children’s publishing. All this, and much, much more!
Listen to the show at Blogtalkradio and call in during the LIVE show to ask your question or just make a comment at 1-646-716-9239.
Join me at 2:00 central time this afternoon for Book Bites for Kids, LIVE on blogtalkradio.com.
My guest today will be children’s author/illustrator Kim Chatel.
Recently, I was interviewed by another children’s writer, Donna M. McDine.
Donna has a fantastic blog, full of tips and other resources for children’s writers.
Read the interview here and find out how to receive a free audio from me called Picturebook Roundup: A Look at Some Popular Picturebooks and What Makes Them So Wonderful.