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Rejection

Luckily for Christopher Paul Curtis and his readers, his first manuscript was accepted.

Does quality matter?

Books that children enjoy reading—however high or low they may be on the ladder of literary excellence—can be viewed as gateways to literacy.

Looking for themselves

Young people are looking for stories that deal with issues that feel familiar and stories that help them figure out who they are in the world.

Where the imagination lives

There’s a little room in your head which has a door with no handle. It is fed by everything you remember about what you have thought, done, everybody you’ve met, everything you’ve read.

The classroom storyteller

Dav Pilkey discusses his elementary school experiences as a student diagnosed with dyslexia and ADHD. 

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