I had an interesting experience this morning. I took part in a panel discussion with author David Michael Slater. The program was part of the adult education program at Temple Beth Israel. David and I spoke to the question of how being Jewish affects what we write. Some of David’s comments really intrigued me. His [...]
An astonishing article appeared on the front page of the New York Times yesterday. Here’s the link so you can read it yourself: Picture Books, Long a Staple, Lose Out in the Rush to Read. Since most of my books are picture books, this is not something I want to read the first thing in [...]
Two top editors in the children’s book field, Noa Wheeler of Holt and Molly O’Neill of HarperCollins, gave an important overview of the industry. The changes of recent years have been deep and give all indications of being ongoing. The school and library market is still significant, but not to the degree that it once [...]
