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2009 |
PETR HORACEK
Interview by Natasha Leland
My two-year-old introduced me to Petr Horacek. I had bought one of his picture books, ... read more >
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2008 |
URI SHULEVITZ FILM
Excerpts from "WHY IS THE MOST IMPORTANT PICTURE IN A PICTURE BOOK INVISIBLE?"
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Bologna
12 interview extract. All of these people will be speaking at the Bologna conference, 29 - 31 March
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| Interviews
2007 |
Meet Beverley Birch
Ann Jacobus interviewed Beverley Birch of Hodder Children’s Books/Hachette, UK, in August, 2007 before the SCBWI France Sequester II Writers’ and Editors’ Retreat at Royaumont, France
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Lexa Hilyer
Lexa Hillyer, editor at Penguin’s Razorbill imprint, answered Ann Jacobus’ questions before her appearance at the SCBWI France Writers’ and Editors’ retreat at Royaumont, France (November 2007).
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2004 |
Barbara
McClintock
An illustrator based in New York Barbara McClintock’s
books have won numerous awards and are published
internationally. An exhibitor at the SCBWI
Mona Bismarck Foundation show (Sept-Oct 2004),
she will also be speaker at the SCBWI France
event in Paris in October 2004
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John
Shelley
John Shelley is a prolific and multi-faceted
illustrator of British origin now based in
Japan. An exhibitor at the SCBWI Mona Bismarck
Foundation show (Sept-Oct 2004) , he will
also be speaker at the SCBWI France event
in Paris in October.
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Leonard
Marcus
Leonard
Marcus is one of the US children's book world's
most respected and versatile writers, historians,
and critics. His incisive book reviews have
been featured in the NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW,
PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY among many other
publications in the US and elsewhere. His
own books include: MARGARET WISE BROWN: AWAKENED
BY THE MOON, DEAR GENIUS: THE LETTERS OF URSULA
NORDSTROM, AUTHOR TALK, WAYS OF TELLING, and
STORIED CITY. Leonard Marcus is a featured
speaker at SCBWI France events in October
2004.
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2003 |
Rosemary
Brosnan
Rosemary Brosnan is Executive Editor at HarperCollins
Children's Books. She publishes hardcover
picture books, chapter books, middle-grade
and young adult fiction, and non-fiction for
all ages. Rosemary is the HarperCollins children's
division's coordinator of Rayo, an imprint
that publishes books by Latino and Latina
authors as well as Spanish-language books.
She was a featured speaker in the SCBWI international
conference in Madrid 2003.
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Rosemary
Canter
Rosemary Canter is head of the Children's
Department at PFD, one of Europe's leading
literary and talent agencies. She is based
in London. She was a featured speaker in the
SCBWI international conference in Madrid 2003.
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Sharon
Darrow
Sharon Darrow is the author of picture books,
YA novels, creative non-fiction and poetry.
She teaches in Vermont College's MFA in Writing
for Children and Adults. She was a featured
speaker in the SCBWI international conference
in Madrid 2003.
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David
Fickling
David Fickling has his own imprint, David
Fickling Books, which is based with Random
House. He is responsible for publishing such
award-winning titles as Phillip Pullman's
HIS DARK MATERIALS TRILOGY. He was a featured
speaker in the SCBWI international conference
in Madrid 2003.
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Ana
Juan
Ana Juan is a Spanish illustrator whose books
include FRIDA ("Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic).
She contributes to a wide array of periodicals,
such as the New Yorker, and has won numerous
awards, including many Gold and Silver Awards
from the Society of Newspaper Design in the
U.S. She was a featured speaker in the SCBWI
international conference in Madrid 2003.
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Janet
McDonald
Janet McDonald, Paris resident and attorney,
is the author of YA novels, SPELLBOUND (an
ALA Best YA Novel for 2001), CHILL WIND, and
TWISTS AND TURNS.
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Stephen
Mooser
Stephen Mooser is the President and co-founder
of SCBWI and the author of sixty children's
books (one of the first of which was illustrated
by Quentin Blake).
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Emma
Dryden
Emma Dryden is Vice President and Editorial
Director of Margaret K. McElderry Books, an
imprint of the Simon & Schuster Children's
Publishing Division. She was a featured speaker
in the SCBWI France Editors Day in October
2003.
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Venetia
Gosling
After working at Hodder Children's Books from
1994 to 2003, Venetia Gosling recently joined
Simon & Schuster UK as Fiction Editorial
Director with the mandate to spearhead fiction
growth. She was a featured speaker in the
SCBWI France Editors Day in October 2003.
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Sarah
Hughes
Sarah Hughes is the Editorial Director of
Fiction at Puffin, the children's book division
of Penguin Books, where she oversees such
luminary YA and middle grade authors as Melvin
Burgess, Eoin Colfer among many others. She
was a featured speaker in the SCBWI France
Editors Day in October 2003.
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Suzanne
Carnell
Suzanne Carnell is Editorial Director of Picture
Books for Macmillan Children's Books. She
was a featured speaker in the SCBWI France
Editors Day in October 2003.
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Alex
Sanchez
Alex Sanchez's first novel, "Rainbow
boys" is a gay love story set in an American
high school. It won a number of prestigious
awards and was an ALA "Best Book for
Young Adults."
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Bridget
Strevens-Marzo
Bridget Strevens-Marzo occasionally writes
but mostly illustrates for children’s
book and magazine publishers internationally.
She is the current SCBWI International Illustrator
Coordinator. She was a featured speaker in
the SCBWI international conference in Madrid
2003
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2002 |
Beverley
Birch
Beverley Birch is a Senior Commissioning
Editor for fiction at Hodder Children's Books
with responsibility for developing the "Silver"
list.
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Doug
Cushman
Doug Cushman has illustrated over 80
books for children, 12 of which he wrote himself
Expression interviewed him in November, in
Paris where he is currently living, developing
an expertise in French food and wine and seeking
inspiration.
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Esther
Hernshenhorn
Author Esther Hernshenhorn teaches Writing
for Children at the Ragdale Foundation and
the Newberry Library. She is the SCBWI Regional
Advisor for Illinois, editor of the chapter's
newsletter "The Prairie Wind," and
a writing coach. She won the 2002 Sydney Taylor
Book Award for her book, CHICKEN SOUP BY HEART.
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Bobbi
Katz
Bobbi Katz has written several professional
books, three I CAN READ books, and more, but
she is best known for her poetry collections:
TRUCK TALK: RHYMES ON WHEELS (Scholastic/Cartwheel
Books) COULD WE BE FRIENDS? POEMS FOR PALS
(Mondo) WE THE PEOPLE (Greenwillow Books/Harper
Collins) and A RUMPUS OF RHYMES: A BOOK OF
NOISY POEMS (Dutton).
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2000-2001 |
Joan
Bauer
Author Joan Bauer was a featured speaker
in the Spring 2001 Conference in Paris. SCBWI
interviewed Joan shortly after she won an
American Library Association Newbery Honor
award for HOPE WAS HERE (Putnam, 2000).
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Caitlyn
Dlouhy
Caitlyn Dlouhy is a senior editor of
Atheneum Books for Young Readers.
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Elzbieta
Elzbieta lives and works in Paris.
She divides her time between painting, photography,
sculpture, and writing and illustrating children's
books.
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Simone
Kaplan
Simone Kaplan was editor of Harper
Growing Tree, at Harper Festival when SCBWI
France interviewed her in 2001.
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Susan
Kochan
Susan Kochan is an editor at GP Putnam
& Sons USA
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Régine
Lilensten
Created in December 1999, the Maison
des Illustrateurs in Paris could be defined
as a resource center for children’s
book illustrators. After 30 years of experience
as a children’s book editor, Régine
Lilensten set up this organization dedicated
to "young" illustrators.
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Thierry
Magnier
Founded in Paris in 1998, Editions
Thierry Magnier, France, publishes books for
all ages, from picture books and middle-grade
novels to young-adult fiction.
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Daniel
Maja
Daniel Maja, born in Paris in 1942,
has illustrated more than 60 children's books.
He has also published several collections
of drawings, and his work appears regularly
in Le Monde, The New Yorker and other publications.
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Emma
Matthewson
Emma Matthewson was Commissioning Editor
at Bloomsbury Publishing UK when SCBWI France
interviewed her in May 2001.
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