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My 5-Year-Old Asks Calef Brown Questions about The Ghostly Carousel

By Carol Hinz, Editorial Director of Millbrook Press and Carolrhoda Books As I mentioned in yesterday’s interview on the blog, my 5-year-old is a bit obsessed with Calef Brown’s new poetry collection, The Ghostly Carousel: Delightfully Frightful Poems.Read more

Remembering Biologist Lincoln Brower, Advocate for the Monarch Butterfly

By Carol Hinz, Editorial Director of Millbrook Press and Carolrhoda Books Have you spotted any monarch caterpillars or butterflies lately? We currently have three chrysalides at my house hanging from the top of a mesh butterfly habitat, and one rapidly-growing caterpillar who has been munching through milkweed leaves harvested from our backyard. They’ve been on […]Read more

3 Great Tips for Sharing Seeing into Tomorrow

By Carol Hinz, Editorial Director of Millbrook Press and Carolrhoda Books In a casual conversation with Nina Crews, I mentioned that my younger son (who was 4 at the time) was a bit too young to really understand Seeing into Tomorrow: Haiku by Richard Wright. Nina selected the haiku for the book, created photo-collage illustrations, and […]Read more

Reading Like a Writer: What Authors Read for Inspiration [Part Two]

By Carol Hinz, Editorial Director of Millbrook Press and Carolrhoda Books Recently, Laura Purdie Salas, Chris Barton, and Sara Levine talked a little about their reading habits. You can find that post here. Today I’m pleased to share three more contributions to this series!Read more

Reading Like a Writer: What Authors Read for Inspiration [Part One]

By Carol Hinz, Editorial Director of Millbrook Press and Carolrhoda Books I’ve been thinking lately about the importance of reading in shaping a person’s writing skills. Before we can write well, we first have to see good writing and then absorb it through a mysterious osmosis-like process. This is certainly true for authors and editors, […]Read more

How to Perform a Poem: Tips from Author & Actor Charles Waters

By Carol Hinz, Editorial Director of Millbrook Press and Carolrhoda Books Happy National Poetry Month! Poetry is wonderful, but sometimes it’s also intimidating—especially if you’re reading a poem aloud to a group of people. So I asked poet and actor Charles Waters to give all of us non-actors a little advice.Read more

Poetry, Race, and Art: A Conversation with Selina Alko, Sean Qualls, and Nina Crews

By Carol Hinz, Editorial Director of Millbrook Press and Carolrhoda Books While working on the books Can I Touch Your Hair? Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship and Seeing into Tomorrow: Poems by Richard Wright, I couldn’t help noticing commonalities between the two. Both are volumes of poetry and both explore race and identity. Yet the books differ […]Read more

Nonfiction Books and the Creative Process [Part 2]

By Carol Hinz, Editorial Director of Millbrook Press and Carolrhoda Books Earlier this month, I shared the creative process behind two nonfiction picture books. You can read that post here. Today I asked three authors to give a peek inside how they created their photo-driven nonfiction books. Read more

Nonfiction Books and the Creative Process [Part 1]

By Carol Hinz, Editorial Director of Millbrook Press and Carolrhoda Books When we think about the creative process, fiction often comes to mind. After all, what’s more creative than making up stuff?! Yet as nonfiction authors and illustrators can tell you, the process of making a nonfiction picture book incorporates a good measure of creativity as well. […]Read more

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