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KATHI
APPELT
Kathi is the author of more than twenty
books for children and teenagers. Her picture books include
award winners such as Bubba and Beau, Best Friends
(School Library Journal, “Best Book of the Year”),
and Bats Around the Clock (IRA Children’s Choice
Award). Kissing Tennessee & Other Stories from the
Stardust Dance was chosen by the American Library Association
as a “Best Book for Young Adults,” and Poems
from Homeroom: A Writer’s Place to Start was chosen
by Booklist magazine as one of its “Top Ten Books of
Poetry.” Recent books include My Father’s
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LARRY
DANE BRIMNER
Larry Dane Brimner is the author of
more than 135 books for young people, ranging from middle-grade
nonfiction to chapter books to easy-to-read books and picture-book
fiction. Among his titles are Snowboarding (Watts),
an IRA Children’s Choice book; The Littlest Wolf
(HarperCollins), a 2004 Great Lakes’ Great Books honor
title and nominee for the 2005 Arkansas Diamond award—both
children’s choice awards; Firehouse Sal (Children’s
Press), named to the Best Books for the First Grade list;
and Subway: The Story of Tunnels, Tubes, and Tracks
(Boyds Mills Press), a Junior Library Guild selection.
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PAT
BRODERICK
Pat is the vice-president, editorial
director, and cofounder of Teaching PreK-8 (formerly
Early Years), a respected and award-winning periodical
for educators. For the past twenty-one years, the faculty
at Chautauqua has been enhanced by her unlimited store of
knowledge and heightened awareness of how best to encourage
writers and readers. In 2006, Pat was inducted into the AEP
Educational Publishing Hall of Fame.
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KENT
L. BROWN JR.
Kent is the executive director of the Highlights Foundation,
Inc. He is editor in chief emeritus of Highlights for Children,
Inc., and the former publisher of Boyds Mills Press, the trade
division of Highlights which he co-founded in 1990. He serves
Highlights for Children, Inc. as a director. A past president
of the Educational Press Association of America, Kent has
served on the publications committee of the International
Reading Association and is a member of the National Council
of Teachers of English, the American Society of Magazine Editors,
and the National Press Club.
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JUDY
BURKE
Judy is the managing editor of Highlights
for Children magazine, where she has worked since 1995.
She edits the popular "Ask Arizona" stories for
advanced readers, writes “Goofus and Gallant,”
and edits the nonfiction sports articles. Judy also selects
material and writes several monthly features for HighlightsKids.com.
She has edited a craft book, Look What You Can Make with
Paper Bags, and three children’s journals for Boyds
Mills Press.
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CHRISTINE
FRENCH CLARK
Chris is the editor in chief of
Highlights for Children and Highlights High Five,
responsible for the magazines in all their formats, including
HighlightsKids.com, an award-winning Web site for kids. Her
twenty-plus-year career in children’s publishing includes
stints as editor of Humpty Dumpty’s Magazine,
Turtle, Jack and Jill, and Children’s
Digest. She has also written more than one hundred stories,
poems, and lesson segments.
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BRUCE
COVILLE
Bruce is the author of ninety books
for children and young adults, including the international
bestseller
My Teacher Is an Alien and the wildly popular Unicorn
Chronicles series. He has won more than a dozen "Children's
Choice" awards from various states, including Hawaii,
Nevada, Arizona, Vermont, and Maryland.
At various times, Bruce has been a teacher, a toymaker, a
magazine editor, a gravedigger, and a cookware salesman. He
is also the founder of Full Cast Audio, an audiobook publishing
company devoted to producing full cast, unabridged recordings
of material for family listening. He lives in Syracuse, New
York, with his wife, illustrator Katherine Coville.
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JOY
COWLEY
Joy's love for children's literature
is "a commitment that borders on obsession." Her
novels and picture books regularly receive top honors. Countless
children know her classic Mrs. Wishy-Washy. Among
her recent titles are The Rusty, Trusty Tractor;
Big Moon Tortilla; Agapanthus Hum and the Eyeglasses;
Red-Eyed Tree Frog; Starbright and the Dream
Eater; Mrs. Goodstory; and Where Horses
Run Free. Her book The Silent One received the
New Zealand Children's Book of the Year award and has been
made into a film shown on the Disney Channel. Hunter,
published by Patti Gauch for Philomel, was named New Zealand’s
Children's Book of the Year for 2006. In 1990, New Zealand
awarded its Commemorative Medal to Joy for her service to
Children's Literature. In 1992, she received the Order of
the British Empire, which acknowledges her distinguished service
to the arts and sciences.
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BERNICE
E. CULLINAN
Bee is a professor emeritus of reading
and children’s literature at New York University. She
has served as editor in chief of the Wordsong poetry imprint
at Boyds Mills Press, as president of the International Reading
Association, and on numerous award committees, including those
for the Caldecott Award and the Ezra Jack Keats New Writer
Award. In addition, Bee has received many awards and honors
of her own. In 1989 she was inducted into the Reading Hall
of Fame and received the Arbuthnot Award for Outstanding Teacher
of Children’s Literature. She is the 2003 recipient
of the NCTE Outstanding Educator in Language Arts award. Bee
is the author of the classic text Literature and the Child,
as well as many other books, including Read to Me: Raising
Kids Who Love to Read.
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CANDACE
FLEMING
Candace is an award-winning author
of numerous books for children. She discovered the joy and
music of children’s books by reading aloud to her two
sons. Her award winners include Ben Franklin's Almanac,
an ALA Notable Book and an ALA Best Book for Young Adults;
Our Eleanor, a 2005 School Library Journal Best Book;
Boxes for Katje, Publishers Weekly Best Book of the
Year 2003; as well as Muncha! Muncha! Muncha!; Gabriella's
Song; and When Agnes Caws—all ALA Notable
Books.
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PATRICIA
LEE GAUCH
Patti is vice president and editor
at large of Philomel Books as well as a respected author in
her own right. She holds a doctorate in English literature,
and has taught children's literature on the college level
and reviewed for The New York Times. Patti has edited three
Caldecott books, including Owl Moon by Jane Yolen
and John Schoenherr, and So You Want to Be President?
by Judith St. George and David Small. She has worked with
many well-known authors, including Jane Yolen, Andrew Clements,
and Brian Jacques.
Patti has written thirty-nine books
for young readers, among them the highly acclaimed Thunder
at Gettysburg and This Time, Tempe Wick? Her
most recent title, Tanya and the Red Shoes, part
of the celebrated Tanya ballet series, was published in spring
2002.
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KIM
T. GRISWELL
Kim is the coordinating editor of Highlights
for Children. Her service has spanned the worlds of publishing
and teaching, leading her to positions as senior editor, book
development manager, a university instructor, and a teacher
with the Institute of Children’s Literature. She holds master’s
degrees in teaching writing and in literature. A prolific writer
and committed editor, Kim has published more than two hundred
short stories, articles, and columns. Her children’s book, Carnivorous
Plants, was recently published by Kidhaven Press.
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ANDREW
GUTELLE
Andrew is a writer, editor, and editorial
consultant who has participated in the development of many
publishing projects for children. He has written non-fiction
books for many publishers, including Random House, Putnam,
Workman, and Time-Life Books for Children. Andy received five
Emmy nominations for his work on the television show Reading
Rainbow.
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KELLY
MILNER HALLS
Kelly is a full-time free-lance writer
specializing in quirky, well researched children's nonfiction
for readers age nine and up. She has written nearly 1,600
articles and reviews for dozens of publications and more than
fifteen books, including I Bought a Baby Chicken
(Boyds Mills Press), Look What You Can Make with Craft
Sticks (Boyds Mills Press), Dinosaur Mummies
(Darby Creek Publishing), Albino Animals (Darby Creek
Publishing), Wild Dogs (Darby Creek Publishing),
Tales of the Cryptids (Darby Creek Publishing), Mysteries
of the Mummy Kids (Darby Creek Publishing), and The
Random House Dinosaur Travel Guide (Random House). Her
work regularly appears in Children's Writer's and Illustrator's
Market published annually by Writer's Digest Books and
she is an enthusiastic presenter at schools and conferences.
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PETER
P. JACOBI
Peter is professor emeritus of journalism
at Indiana University and a consultant with magazines and
corporations, helping CEOs, writers, and editors learn to
express their ideas more effectively. His articles have appeared
in World Book, The New York Times, Highlights
for Children, and others. His two guidebooks, The Magazine
Article: How to Think It, Plan It, Write It and Writing
with Style: The News Story and the Feature, are standard
reference sources for journalists.
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JOY
NEAVES
Joy is the editor of Front Street,
where she has worked since 1999. She graduated from the University
of North Carolina at Asheville with a degree in literature
and language. She stumbled into the job at Front Street while
working and pursuing a graduate degree. She made a quick journey
from reading children’s books to her six nieces to editing
books instead. She has worked with many accomplished authors
and illustrators, including Andrea Cheng, Lindsay Lee Johnson,
Judith Clark, Per Nilsson, Adam Osterweil, Charlotte Pomerantz,
Craig Smith, and Rob Shepperson.
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FRANCES
PLUMPTON
Frances has worked in public libraries
for many years, specializing in children’s and young-adult
services. She has convened judging panels for both New
Zealand Post and the LIANZA (Library & Information
Association of New Zealand Aotearoa) children’s book
awards. Frances was a founding management committee member
of Storylines Children’s Literature Trust of New Zealand
of which she, along with Joy Cowley, is now a trustee. In
addition to working as Saturday Supervisor at a local public
library, Frances is responsible for the children’s and
young-adult writers at Richards Literary Agency. She was the
recipient of the Storylines Children’s Literature Trust
of New Zealand’s 2006 Betty Gilderdale Award for services
to children’s literature.
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LAURENCE
PRINGLE
Larry is a renowned writer with more
than one hundred books to his credit, mostly
nonfiction, including One Room School and American
Slave, American Hero: York of the
Lewis and Clark Expedition. His most recent releases include
Penguins! Strange and
Wonderful and Bear Hug (picture book fiction).
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ERIC
ROHMANN
Both an author and an illustrator, Eric
was awarded the 2003 Caldecott Medal for My Friend Rabbit.
The Caldecott Medal is given to the illustrator of the “most
distinguished American Picture Book for Children published in
the United States” in that year. Eric’s first book
for children, Time Flies, was a Caldecott Honor book
for 1995. Also a painter and printmaker, Eric earned fine arts
degrees from Arizona State University and Illinois State University.
His other picture books include The Cinder-Eyed Cats,
Pumpkinhead, The Prairie Train, and his latest,
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CHRISTINE
TAYLOR-BUTLER
Christine is the author of more than
forty books for children. Her titles include: No Boys Allowed,
A Pony to Love, Hawaii, Tiny Life on Your
Body and A Home in the Rainforest. A graduate
of the 2002 Chautauqua retreat, Christine is Treasurer and past
President of Missouri Writers Guild as well as Treasurer of
Juvenile Writers of Kansas City. She is also a member of the
Metropolitan Area Librarian's Youth Services Review Group.
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CLAY
WINTERS
Clay, president of Boyds Mills Press,
has been in publishing since 1960. Before coming to Boyds
Mills Press, he was president of Putnam/Grosset Books for
Young Readers, the children's book group of G.P. Putnam &
Sons. Clay has taught the rudiments of publishing to aspiring
writers and an entrepreneurial course in marketing for several
different institutions.
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CAROLYN
P. YODER
Carolyn is the senior editor of history
and world cultures for Highlights for Children and
has written numerous articles on research and writing history
for children. She spent a decade serving as the award-winning
editor in chief of Cobblestone: The History Magazine for
Young People; Calliope; Faces; and Odyssey,
which led to her position as assistant publisher of Cobblestone
Publishing, Inc., overseeing development of its book division.
Carolyn is currently editor of Calkins
Creek Books—the history and historical fiction imprint
of Boyds Mills Press, publisher of her book George Washington:
The Writer. She also reviews juvenile history books for
the Civil War Book Review and has been a writer and
editor for the New Jersey Historical Society.
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