Links & Friends

One of the many things I love about the children's book world are the people involved. Sometimes a book

comes along that tucks into your heart and then flips open and changes you from the inside out. But the book

that will do that for one person is very different from the book that will do that for another. Authors are as

individual as our books and our readers. Here's hoping that one of my many friends will expand your world and

make you laugh or think, or both!

Amy Timberlake - quiky girl with a brain that is electric, words that pop like poetry, and a sense of humor that sends you spinning

April Halprin Wayland - who's huge heart says that "teaching is generosity" - part of a teaching authors' collective

April Pulley Sayre - lyrical and precise books on natural history

Ashley Formento - young adult novelist with a new picture-book: This Tree Counts!

Alvina Ling - modest but brilliant editor at Little Brown who has edited friends Janie Bynum and Grace Lin. Fun blog.

Anne Broyles - desert-born, spirit centered novelist & picture-book

Anne Ylvisaker -

Barbara Garrison -

Betsy James -

Bill Cride -

Christine Taylor Butler -

Carmen Bernier Grand

http://www.suzanneselfors.com/ (one of the better children's book web sites out there)