Author/Illustrator websites:

Websites of friends and colleagues who are children's book author/illustrators.

• Liza Ketchum - www.lizaketchum.com Liza is an author of middle grade and young adult fiction and non-fiction. For years, we've been in a writer's group together with Karen Hesse and Bob MacLean.

• Suse MacDonald - www.susemacdonald.com Suse is an author/illustrator who primarily works in collage. She lives nearby and we are in an illustrator crit. group together.

• Matt and Christy McElligott - McElligott Graphics www.mcegraphics.com Matt and Christy helped me pull this website together. Their help and advice was and is invaluable! Matt is an author/illustrator of children's picture books. Learn about his books at www.mattmcelligott.com.

• Tracey Campbell Pearson - www.traceycampbellpearson.com Tracey is another member of our illustrator crit. group. She writes and illustrates picturebooks.

• Catherine Stock - www.catherinestock.com Catherine Stock is an author, illustrator and book designer. She designed my book, The Robbery at the Diamond Dog Diner. The cover of that book is one of my favorites!

• Barbara Seuling - www.barbaraseuling.com Barbara is a former children's book editor who is the author and/or illustrator of more than 50 books for children. Barbara Seuling conducts workshops in Vermont for people who are interested in writing for children.

• John Stadler - www.johnstadler.com Also a member of our illustrator's group.

• Find Authors that are members of the Author's Guild at

Writer's Resources:

Information about children's books and writing-for teachers, parents, authors and aspiring authors:

• Catherine Stock - www.catherinestock.com will be offering a two-week workshop at her studio in France on writing and illustrating picture books.

• CBC- the Children's Book Council - www.cbcbooks.org A good site to connect with other children's book author and illustrator websites. Other good information about children's books.

• SCBWI - Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators www.scbwi.org SCBWI is a great source of support and information for authors and illustrators of children's books as well as for people trying to get started.

• Barbara Seuling- Writer's workshops in Vermont. www.barbaraseuling.com

• Purple Crayon - www.underdown.org Harold Underdown, an editor, has put together a site packed with information on writing and illustrating children's books. This site has good links.

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Books to read if you are interested in writing or illustrating children's picture books:

• Giblin, Jim: Writing For Young People, Writer's Inc.

• Seuling, Barbara: How to Write a Children's Book and Get it Published

• Schulevitz, Uri: Writing With Pictures - How to Write and Illustrate Children's Books, Watson Guptill
  

Publishing for Kids:

• Stone Soup - A magazine by young writers and artists, welcomes submissions by young people through age 13. www.stonesoup.com

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Children's Literature Sites:

Information about children's literature-useful to teachers and librarians

• The Children's Literature Web Guide - www.clwg.org This site has interesting information and links relevant to children's literature. Unfortunately they have not updated their links since 1998, so many authors who have since created websites, myself included, are not listed! Nonetheless, it's a good resource.

• Kay Vandergrift's Special Interest Page - www.scils.rutgers.edu/special/kay/kayhp2.html A site especially useful to teachers and librarians - much information about children's literature.

• Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County www.brarydog.net Go to the 'Children's Desk'. This is a high-tech site, which might be of interest to teachers, librarians and parents.

• www.bookhive.org An interesting list of children's books.

Publishers:

• Houghton Mifflin Trade Division - www.hmco.com/trade

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Collections:

• Mazza Collection - Art from Children's Books www.mazzacollection.org/ The Mazza Collection, in Findlay, Ohio, has an extensive teaching collection of original art from children's picture books. They put on traveling exhibits and have conferences several times a year.

• Kerlan Collection Website coming - summer 2001 The Kerlan Collection is an extensive research collection of manuscripts, sketches and finished art from children's books. It is housed at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.

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Bookstores:

Interesting bookstores I have visited. These bookstores have extensive knowledge about children's literature. Some have their own websites. Others can be reached through www.booksense.com Otherwise you can contact them by phone.

* Indicates they specialize solely in children's books.

Midwest:

• *Blue Marble Books - Ft Thomas, Kentucky
  Homepage - http://home.fuse.net/Blue_Marble/
  Orders - www.bluemarblebooks.com
  In addition to a fine collection of current children's books, Blue Marble Books is a good resource for finding out-of-print children's books.
• *Book Beat - Oak Park, Michigan H.W.
• Schwartz Bookshop - Brookfield, Wisconsin
• Schuler's Bookstore - Okemo, Michigan
• *Red Balloon - St. Paul, Minnesota
• *Wild Rumpus - Minneapolis, Minnesota
• Anderson's Bookshops - Naperville, Illinois
• 57th Street Books - Chicago, Illinois
• Books & Co - Dayton, Ohio
• Cover to Cover - Columbus, Ohio
• *Kids' Ink - Indianapolis, Indiana
• Reading Reptile - www.readingreptile.com Kansas City, Missouri

Northeast:

• *Hodge Podge Books - www.hodge-podgebooks.com Albany, New York
• Book Rack and Children's Pages - Winooski, Vermont
• Northshire Bookstore - Manchester, Vermont
• Toadstool Books - Keene, New Hampshire

 

Southeast:

• *Black Forest Books - Charlotte, North Carolina
• *Hobbit Hall - Roswell, Georgia
• A Likely Story - Alexandria, VA
• *Children's Bookstore - Baltimore, MD
• Politics and Prose - Washington, DC

West:

• *A Whale of a Tale - Irvine, California
• *Imagine That Bookstore - Riverside, California
• *Mrs. Nelson's Toy and Bookshop - La Verne, California
• *The White Rabbit - La Jolla, California
• *The Yellow Brick Road - La Mesa, California