Meet Phoebe Yeh
Phoebe knows a thing or two about finishing a manuscript. She and her team of editors are responsible for the estate programs of C.S. Lewis, Maurice Sendak and Shel Silverstein. They also oversee The Series of Unfortunate Events publishing program and …
- The Brilliant Dummy
November 8 – November 11, 2012
Abby McAden
Abby McAden is the paperback publishing director of Scholastic and editorial director of Point. She has worked on many middle-grade and chapter-book series, including Goosebumps, Dear Dumb Diary, Rainbow Magic, Geronimo Stilton, and Poison Apple.
Alan Gratz
Alan Gratz’s first novel, Samurai Shortstop, was named one of the ALA’s 2007 Top Ten Best Books for Young Adults. His second novel, Something Rotten, was a 2008 ALA Quick Pick for Young Adult Readers, and was followed by a sequel, Something Wicked, in October 2008.
Alexandria LaFaye
Alexandria LaFaye, author of the Scott O’Dell Award–winning novel Worth, is thrilled to have a picture book added to her publication list with Walking Home to Rosie Lee, a 2012 IRA Teacher’s Choice selection. A few of her other titles include The Keening, Water Steps, Stella Stands Alone…
Alma Fullerton
Alma Fullerton was born in Ottawa, Ontario, as one of seven children. Her dad was in the military so they moved when his postings changed, first to Trenton when she was two, then to Comox when she was twelve. Having a learning disability, she couldn’t read until grade four and didn’t enjoy reading at all until grade nine, when she discovered books that she really loved.
Alvina Ling
Alvina Ling is Executive Editor for Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. She edits children’s books for all ages, from picture books to young-adult novels, with some nonfiction mixed in.
Alyssa Capucilli
Alyssa Satin Capucilli is the award-winning author of nearly 100 books for children. Her popular Biscuit book series, with more than fifty books, includes picture books, board books, e-books, and Apps.
Amie Jane Leavitt
Amie is an accomplished author, researcher, and photographer who has written more than fifty books for kids, has contributed to online and print media, and has worked as a consultant, writer, and editor for numerous educational publishing and assessment companies.
Amy Rose Capetta
We’re pleased to welcome Amy as a Teaching Assistant for this course. Amy Rose Capetta holds an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her debut, Entangled, is a young-adult science-fiction novel, forthcoming from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2013.
Andrew Gutelle
Andy is a writer, editor, and editorial consultant with a strong interest in sports, games, puzzles, and other nonfiction subjects. He has written books for many publishers, including Random House, Putnam, Workman, and Time-Life Books for Children
Andy Boyles
Andy is the science editor at Highlights magazine. He used to write about psychiatry and molecules at medical centers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Galveston, Texas, but he hasn’t done that since he joined Highlights eighteen years ago.
Anne Ursu
Anne is the author of several books for young readers. Her book BREADCRUMBS was a Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, BCCB, and Amazon.com Best Book of the Year.
Annie Beer
Annie is the editorial assistant at Highlights magazine. She began working here in 2011 as editorial intern and never left. She edits the “Crafts” and “Your Own Pages” features in the magazine, as well as special calls for art, stories, …
Augusta Scattergood
We’re pleased to welcome Augusta as a Teaching Assistant for this course. Augusta grew up in a small town in Mississippi. She has since lived in North Carolina, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, California, Rhode Island, New Jersey, and Florida—twice!
Barbara Jean Hicks
Barbara Jean Hicks is the author of five critically acclaimed and award-winning picture books that beg to be read aloud! She claims that editors who say they don’t like rhyme really mean they don’t like bad rhyme. And if a story wants to be told in rhyme, who is she to say no?
Barbara Krasner
Barbara Krasner received her MFA in Writing for Children & Young Children from Vermont College in January 2006. She is the author of 100 articles that have appeared in Highlights for Children, Appleseeds, Babaganewz, Calliope, Cobblestone, Footsteps, and Odyssey.
Bernette Ford
Bernette founded Color-Bridge Books, LLC, an independent packaging and consulting company, in January 2003, to package a wide range of children’s books, including board books and novelty books, picture books, easy readers, and first chapter books, for publishers to the trade and supplementary school markets.
Bethany Hegedus
We’re pleased to welcome Bethany as a Teaching Assistant for this course. Bethany’s books include Truth with a Capital T (Delacorte/Random House) and Between Us Baxters (WestSide Books).
Bobbie Combs
Bobbie has spent over 25 years exploring every corner of the children’s book publishing industry. Her career has taken her …
Brian Enslow
Brian Enslow has worked in the publishing world since 1987. Over that time Brian has seen the world change from typewriters and galleys, to computers and desktop publishing, and now from printed books to electronic books.
Bruce Coville
Bruce Coville is the author of 101 books for children and young adults, including the international bestseller My Teacher Is an Alien, and the wildly popular “Unicorn Chronicles” series.