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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

The Illustration Process and Meet My Family! [Guest Post by Stephanie Fizer Coleman]

Meet My Family! Animal Babies and Their Families illustrator Stephanie Fizer Coleman shares her process for creating the art for this adorable picture book. 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

A National Dictionary Day Q&A with Noah Webster

Happy National Dictionary Day! We asked Noah Webster, star and editor of Noah Webster’s Fighting Words, to answer a few questions in honor of the occasion. (Author Tracy Nelson Maurer might have helped him out a bit.)Read more

How Picture Book Pagination Keeps Readers Turning the Pages

Looking for Carol Hinz’s post on picture book pagination? You can find an updated version of it at the Picture Book Builders blog!Read more

Author Chris Barton on Dazzle Ships and Creative Problem Solving

Author Chris Barton introduces his new nonfiction picture book Dazzle Ships: World War I and the Art of Confusion.Read more

5 Questions for Dazzle Ships Illustrator Victo Ngai

Recently back from Helsinki, Finland, where she attended the Hugo Awards ceremony as a finalist in the “Best Professional Artist” category, Victo Ngai found the time to answer a few questions about Dazzle Ships: World War I and the Art of Confusion, which comes out on September 1.Read more

The Element of Surprise in Nonfiction Picture Books

By Carol Hinz, Editorial Director of Millbrook Press What makes a kid (or an adult) pick up a nonfiction picture book? What compels them to keep reading? I can think of a few different answers to these questions, but today I’d like to focus on the element of surprise. Why? Because surprises help make books fun!Read more

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