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Part 2 . With picture books, the common writerly refrain of "show, don't tell" takes on literal meaning. One of my last editin...

Part 1 . Like any narrative, a picture book must maintain a good pace. Yet in a picture book, this comes from not only the writing but also ...

Welcome to a casual look at some of the subtle devices picture book authors and illustrators use to give readers a magical reading experienc...

Deborah Heiligman's 2/15/11 post at Interesting Nonfiction for Kids brings back matter to the forefront. Like, I presume, most authors ...

I didn’t plan to be a professional cartoonist. In 1998, I started my campaign to cross a particular item off my life list: license a cartoon...

Bill Finger is best known as the unknown co-creator of Batman, who debuted at the start of Finger’s career. The end of his career also invol...

On 2/4/11, at the Society of Illustrators awards gala in New York, Boys of Steel: The Creators of Superman illustrator Ross MacDonald was g...

On 2/17/11, I took part in my second Community Night event for the Washington D.C. organization Turning the Page. The format is this: I show...

Noblemania launched three years ago today. Here are some of my favorite posts of the past three years, organized by category. (For each subs...

While writing, Bill liked to listen to Mozart on his snazzy desktop Crosley radio . I was planning to wait till the book is out to show how ...

Here is one of my favorite entries from my book What's the Difference?: How to Tell Things Apart that Are Confusingly Close , modified ...

In 1955, DC Comics began publishing a title that would become an evergreen for them: The Brave and the Bold . That first series lasted until...

A mother recently e-mailed me the following: Can you tell me if it is appropriate for a teacher to read Vanished to 8-year-olds? I haven’t r...

The same day I learned my Boys of Steel: The Creators of Superman editor Janet Schulman died , I learned that the widow of Jerry Siegel, co...

Today I learned that Janet Schulman, my editor for Boys of Steel: The Creators of Superman , passed away on 2/11/11 after a battle with lun...

At the Wisconsin State Reading Association Convention, a middle school teacher from the Neenah Joint School District asked if I’d e-mail ans...

On the final day of my first trip to Wisconsin, I visited my first Wisconsin school. Not only the first chronologically according to the ori...

Way-out Wisconsin, part 1 of 2 . On 2/8/11, my first of three schools was in picturesque Soldiers Grove. Here’s what awaited me in th...

On 2/7 and 2/8/11, I got to experience the most remote areas in which I’ve done school visits to date: the hilly, snowy, wild west of Wiscon...