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Hopes and dreams

Marcus believes that every generation makes books that contain the hopes and dreams it wants to pass onto the next generation.

Getting published

Though she’d studied illustration in college, it took Grace Lin a while to get published.

Rejection

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

It starts with a character

Jacqueline Woodson doesn’t begin her writing with an outline; instead she develops a character, starts writing, and sees where it all takes her.

Always a writer

As a young child, Cooper wrote plays for a friend’s puppet theater as well as writing for the school magazine.

Poetry and ELLs

Dr. Sylvia Vardell talks about what makes poetry a natural language learning tool for ELLs.

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