Established in 1919,
Children's Book Week is the longest-running literacy initiative in the country.
Each year, books for young people and the joy of reading are feted for a full
week with author and illustrator appearances, storytelling, parties, and other
book-related events at schools, libraries, bookstores, museums, and homes from
coast to coast!
Visit Guardian Angel Publishing
authors via their blogs as they celebrate Children's Book Week. Each stop
includes special topics of discussion: teaching writing and grammar using
children’s books, road to publication, professional critiques, educator guides,
Skype and in-person author visits, what’s selling in children’s non-fiction,
writing narrative non-fiction, interviews, book reviews, individual book
information, and so much more.
Enter at a chance to win
two prizes:
·
One FREE Picture Book
Manuscript Critique by Margot Finke
·
One FREE tote bag of
children's books from the participating authors
Visit May 7-13, 2012 and
automatically enter at a chance to win by commenting, GFC Follower, and/or become
a Facebook Fan or Friend at each of the author blogs.
Guardian Angel Publishing Author Blogs:
Donna
McDine - www.donna-mcdine.blogspot.com
About the authors:
Mayra Calvani
writes fiction and nonfiction for children and adults. Her children’s picture
books include Crash, The Magic Violin, Humberto, the Bookworm Hamster,
Frederico, the Mouse Violinist, The Doll Violinist, The Water Cycle: Water Play Series Book I
and the upcoming The Fox in the Night. She’s had over 300 reviews,
articles, stories and interviews published online and in print. She’s
represented by Mansion Street Literary Management.
Margo
L. Dill is a freelance
writer, editor, and teacher, living in St. Louis, Missouri. Her work has
appeared in publications such as Grit, Pockets, Missouri Life,
ByLine Magazine, The Chicago Tribune, True Love, On the Line, Fun for Kidz, and The News-Gazette. She is a columnist, instructor, and
contributing editor for WOW! Women On Writing.
She writes weekly book reviews for The News-Gazette (Champaign, IL). Her first book, Finding My Place, a middle-grade historical novel, will
be published by White Mane Kids in 2012. She also has a picture book accepted
by Guardian Angel Publishing and another by High Hill Press.
Margot Finke is an Aussie transplant who writes midgrade adventure
fiction and rhyming picture books. For many years she has lived in Oregon with
her husband and family. She has 11 books published so far. Gardening, travel, and reading fill in the
cracks between writing. Her husband is very supportive, though not interested
in children's books . Their three children are now grown and doing very well.
Margot didn't begin serious writing until the day their youngest left for
college. This late start drives her writing, and pushes her to work at it every
day. Margot said, "I really envy those who began young, and managed to
slip into writing mode between kid fights, diaper changes, household disasters,
and outside jobs. You are my heroes! "
Donna McDine is an
award-winning children's author, The Golden Pathway, an historical fiction story book about the
Underground Railroad. Her stories, articles, and book reviews have been published
in over 100 print and online publications. Donna has three more books under
contract with Guardian Angel Publishing, Hockey
Agony, Powder Monkey, and A Sandy Grave. She writes, moms and is
the Editor-in-Chief for Guardian Angel Kids, Publicist for the Working Writer’s
Club, and owner of Author PR Services.
Nancy Stewart is the bestselling and award winning author of the four
Bella and Britt Series books for children. Her newest book, Katrina and Winter: Partners in Courage,
is the biography of Katrina Simpkins with Winter, the dolphin. All are
published by Guardian Angel Publishing. She is a frequent speaker and presenter
at writing conferences throughout the United States. A blogger with a worldwide
audience, she writes of all things pertaining to writing for children.
Kai Strand writes
fiction for children and young adults. Her debut title, The Weaver, was a
finalist in the EPIC eBook Awards. Her upcoming titles, Save The Lemmings! and The
Wishing Well, Another Weaver Tale,
will be released in 2012. Links to current and upcoming short stories can be
found on her website. You can find book related downloads and more information
about Kai and her writing at www.kaistrand.com.
Nicole Weaver was born in
Port-au-Prince Haiti. She came to the United States when she was ten years old.
She is fluent in Creole, French, Spanish, and English. She is a veteran teacher
of French and Spanish. Her second children’s trilingual book, My Sister is My Best Friend was
published by Guardian Angel Publishing, November 2011. She is also the author
of a children’s trilingual picture book, Marie
and Her Friend the Sea Turtle. The story is about a Haitian girl who
resides by the beach in Haiti.
We look
forward to your visit. Thank you and good luck!
Mathiews enlisted two important allies: Frederic G. Melcher, editor of Publishers Weekly who believed that “a great nation is a reading nation,” and Anne Carroll Moore, the Superintendent of Children’s Works at the New York Public Library and a major figure in the library world. With the help of Melcher and Moore, in 1916, the American Booksellers Association and the American Library Association sponsored a Good Book Week with the Boy Scouts of America.
In 1944, the newly-established Children’s Book Council assumed responsibility for administering Children’s Book Week. In 2008, Children’s Book Week moved from November to May. At that time, the administration of Children’s Book Week, including planning official events and creating original materials, was transferred to Every Child a Reader, CBC’s charitable arm. 
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