Nonfiction Authors Dig Deep by Tanya Lee Stone
Today we continue the Nonfiction Authors Dig Deep series with an essay by author Tanya Lees Stone. Thank you, Tanya. I am on a mission to rid us of the term nonfiction. It is meaningless. Why do we describe an entire genre of literature by what it is NOT? It tells us nothing about what […]
Nonfiction Authors Digging Deep by Patricia Valdez
Today we continue the Nonfiction Authors Dig Deep series with an essay by author Patricia Valdez. Thank you, Patricia. When asked to imagine a typical scientist, most people picture a man with wild hair, like Albert Einstein, or with a bow tie and lab coat, like Bill Nye. A peek inside a laboratory today would […]
Nonfiction Authors Dig Deep by Carla Killough McClafferty
Today we continue the Nonfiction Authors Dig Deep series with an essay by author Carla Killough McClafferty. Thank you, Carla. Tragedy made me a writer. My fourteen-month-old son Corey died from a head injury after a minor fall off the backyard swing. Life as I knew it was over. I faced a crisis of faith […]
Nonfiction Authors Dig Deep by April Pulley Sayre
Today we continue the Nonfiction Authors Dig Deep series with a magical essay by author April Pulley Sayre. Thank you, April. My goal in life is to share wonder. My daily life is steeped in mud and toads and wildflowers and adventures in rain forests. So I guess when you ask about how writing and illustrating […]
Nonfiction Authors Dig Deep by Don Tate
Today we continue the Nonfiction Authors Dig Deep series with an essay by author Don Tate. Thank you, Don. When I first got into publishing and for many years afterward, I avoided the topic of slavery, so it’s interesting to me that with my first two authored books, I took on the topic. IT JES’ […]
Nonfiction Authors Dig Deep by Chris Barton
Today we continue the Nonfiction Authors Dig Deep series with an essay by author Chris Barton. Thank you, Chris. There’s a question I ask student audiences immediately after I read aloud my book What Do You Do with a Voice Like That? The Story of Extraordinary Congresswoman Barbara Jordan. It’s a question whose answer is […]
Nonfiction Authors Dig Deep by Donna Janell Bowman
Today we continue the Nonfiction Authors Dig Deep series with an essay by author Donna Janell Bowman. Thank you, Donna. Reading through this inspiring series has me as fascinated by other writers as I am by people in general. It is remarkable that we are each drawn to some ideas but not to others. What […]
Nonfiction Authors Dig Deep by Lesa Cline-Ransome
Today we continue the Nonfiction Authors Dig Deep series with an essay by author Lesa Cline-Ransome. Thank you, Lesa. Much of my life has been shaped by stories. From my earliest days, as a visitor to the Malden Public Library in Massachusetts, I was transformed by the stories I read. As a young girl, so […]
Nonfiction Authors Dig Deep by Karen Romano Young
Today we continue the Nonfiction Authors Dig Deep series with an essay by author Karen Romano Young. Thank you, Karen. Being included—being told you can do this, you can be here, you should be here—is what gets kids engaged and involved in science for now, and for life. When it comes to science, I don’t […]
Nonfiction Authors Dig Deep by Michelle Markel
Today we continue the Nonfiction Authors Dig Deep series with an essay by author Michelle Markel. Thank you, Michelle. The picture book biographies of my youth were bloodless recitations of facts. Many years later, when I started writing for children, a new type of illustrated bio was becoming popular: expressive, artistic, poetic. I wanted to […]