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by Ex Libris on December 9, 2014

Kid-Friendly Author Talk with Crystal Chan on December 10

Crystal Chan Author Talk December 10, 6 p.m.–7:30 p.m. Rogers Park Library 6907 N. Clark Street     Event Description (from Crystal) Got kids? Are you a kid at heart? This December 10, I’ll be at the Rogers Park branch of the Chicago Public Library doing some cool interactives around my children’s novel, Bird. We’ll talk a bit about Bird, but then as the story’s two protagonists want to be a geologist and astronaut, there’ll be time for the kids to talk about what they want to be when they grow up, and why, and explore a bit… Read Article →

by Ex Libris on December 3, 2014

The Children’s Book Academy’s Upcoming Webinar and Chapter Book Alchemist Scholarships

The Children’s Book Academy is offering a free novel-writing webinar on January 2 at 5:30 p.m. PST. The Academy is also accepting scholarship applications for The Chapter Book Alchemist, a five-week e-course on writing chapter books. Aspiring authors of children’s literature may submit their applications through December 10, 2014. To quote the Children’s Book Academy website: “Our scholarships are designed to help bring more diversity of all kinds into the children’s literature field and are currently offered to folks who identify as LBQTI, having a disability, being a person of color, or being low income.”

by Ex Libris on November 5, 2014

Writing What You Don’t Know: Reading and Discussion Tuesday, November 11

Write what you know, the old adage goes. But what about writing what you don’t know? How can writers expand their knowledge? The basics Who: Ami Polonsky and Crystal Chan What: Writing the “Tween-age Other” When: Tuesday, November 11, 6 p.m.–7:30 p.m. Where: Bookends & Beginnings, 1712 Sherman Avenue, Evanston, 60201 RSVP: Email Crystal (chancm16@gmail.com).   Event details Grayson Sender, the protagonist of Ami Polonsky’s middle-grade novel Gracefully Grayson, has been holding onto a secret for what seems like forever: “he” is a girl on the inside, stuck in the wrong gender’s body. In Crystal Chan’s novel Bird, 12-year-old Jewel comes from the only mixed-race family… Read Article →

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