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Our Mission: Improve the Quality of Children's Literature For more than 30 years, the Highlights Foundation has been fulfilling its mission of improving
the quality of children’s literature by helping authors and illustrators hone their craft. Read More

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Guest Post: Carmen Oliver– Is This the Right Workshop for Me? May 21, 2018
Guest Post: Harold Underdown & Eileen Robinson–Tools and Tips on Character Revision May 7, 2018
The Highlights Foundation Visits the Children’s Book Podcast May 4, 2018
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Our Workshops

Retell, Revisit, Reimagine: Writing Fresh Fairy Tales and Folklore for Older Readers May 18-20, 2018
PB&J: Picture Books and All That Jazz June 7-10, 2018
Connecting Source to Story: Mining the World for Your Fiction June 14-17, 2018
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Wednesday, May 23rd, 2018 at 8:45am
Have you mastered the tools you need to revise properly? At this working retreat, editors @HUnderdown and @MoveBooks will show you how! https://t.co/EBS4UesEis https://t.co/A0lcI4fNrq

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Wednesday, May 23rd, 2018 at 5:20am
Discover the Extreme Sport of Research at July's Master Class in Writing Nonfiction for Kids & Teens! https://t.co/IixJKLRhsm With Larry Dane Brimner, Rich Wallace, @SandraNWallace, Carole Boston Weatherford, @EmmaOtheguy and editor @amandashih

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