She regularly comments on books on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition. Learn more about him online at Nancy Pearl is a librarian and lifelong reader. Small’s drawings have appeared in the New Yorker and the New York Times.

His graphic-novel memoir, Stitches, was a 2009 National Book Award finalist. White Award (for When Dinosaurs Came with Everything, written by Elise Broach), among many other accolades. George), the 1998 Caldecott Honor and Christopher Award (for The Gardener, written by his wife, Sarah Stewart), and the 2008 E.B. Learn more about her online at David Small is the recipient of the 2001 Caldecott Medal (for So You Want to Be President?, written by Judith St. Becker lives in Seattle, where she writes full-time and teaches at the Northwest Institute of Literary Arts. She is also the author of a number of award-winning picture books and middle-grade novels. Adding to my bucket list: Visiting Crete and Mycenae.Bonny Becker is the author of the popular Bear and Mouse series of picture books, illustrated by Kady MacDonald Denton, including the New York Times bestseller A Visitor for Bear. Challenged by: Not becoming even more depressed than I already am by the newsġ0. Imagining: What our country would be like if Hillary Clinton had won the presidencyĩ. He’s the calmest, most rational, kindest and funniest person I know. Planning: Nine days of walking in the Cotswolds this summerħ. Following: (On social media) Backlisted Elizabeth McCracken Laura Lippmann Robert McFarlane The MillionsĦ. Listening to: Music by Jason Isbell, Girlyman, Judy Collins podcasts: Backlisted (highly recommended!) Around the NFL The Woj Podĥ. Watching: “The Good Place” (I love Kristen Bell and Ted Danson, and the writing is very clever) basketball (I’m a big fan of the Golden State Warriors)Ĥ. I also want to reread Thucydides’s “The History of the Peloponnesian War.”ģ. Reading: Mainly a lot of nonfiction, including Mark Mazower’s “What You Did Not Tell: A Russian Past and the Journey Home” and other books about 20th century European history. I’m thinking about what his life has been like since we last saw him at age 18 when he was the starting wide receiver on his high school football team.Ģ.

Working on: Starting to think about writing a short story about Maverick Brevard, a character from “George & Lizzie,” who’d be in his late 40s in 2017.

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