- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am always telling students that a story is not just words. You can tell a story with dance or paint or music. Kids and adults are visual learners, auditory learners. There are those of us who need to touch it. Storytelling encompasses so much more than words on paper.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
Telling stories with visuals is an ancient art. We've been drawing pictures on cave walls for centuries. It's like what they say about the perfect picture book. The art and the text stand alone, but together, they create something even better. Kids who need to can grab onto those graphic elements and find their way into the story.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want young readers to know that to tell their own story is the most important thing they'll ever do.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a children's author, you get to advocate for reading and writing in general, in a way an adult author might not be able to. It's a really interesting dance we do to get literature into the hands of young people and to help them to become literate and become readers; we want them to grow up reading and continue to do so when they're adults.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's an extension of what I do also as part of making my living - I go into schools and work with kids on writing, and I do assembly programs often. Each one is different because each school has different requirements.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loved everything about being ten, eleven, and twelve years old, and seem to make most of my heroines and heroes that age so I can reexperience all those pitfalls and wonderful discoveries. It helps me to figure out my own life when I write from that eleven year old place!
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always say that I take my life and turn it into story, and I certainly did that with 'Countdown'.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020