Clip Art for How Humans Make Friends by Loreen Leedy
Meet Karen Nagel, Executive Editor at Aladdin Books/Simon & Schuster. Prior to joining their squad in 2011, she was a Senior Editor at Blue Apple tree Books (2008–2011) and Senior Editor at HarperCollins (2005–2008). But that'due south the sort of bio stuff you hear virtually when you lot're in a task interview, right? At OPB, we do more than. We go deeper. Nosotros come at things from a different angle.
With that in mind, let'due south uncover the REAL 411 near Karen via Six Crawly Karen Facts:
- Has had the same best friends since age 7.
- Did follow spots for an off-off-off Broadway production of Sam Shepard's 'Tooth of Offense.'
- Bicycled through Europe at 16 with American Youth Hostel.
- Has no appendix or tonsils.
- Loves laughing.
- Enjoys yoga.
And for those who Practice yearn for traditional bios, let'south share that too.
"Karen Nagel has had the groovy proficient fortune of a career in children's volume publishing. From #1 New York Times, Usa Today, and Publishers Weekly bestselling books to Coretta Scott King and Society of Illustrator award winners, she has worked with many of industry's virtually noteworthy authors and artists.
Today she is the Executive Editor at Simon & Schuster'southward Aladdin Books, where she non simply has connected to piece of work on bestselling books, but perhaps more significantly has conceived and created new formats for emerging–and reluctant–young readers, planting the seeds for a lifelong love of books. A graduate of New York University, she's a true believer in the transformative and transcendent ability of the arts, the ocean, friendship, family, peace, and love."
BOOM! At present that nosotros've laid the groundwork here for a cute, well-informed relationship, let'southward plunge into the interview.
Here we go!
Aladdin Books website: http://simonandschusterpublishing.com/aladdin/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karen-nagel-7a5aa115/
KN: Information technology might exist easier for a celebrity writer to promote and sell books as they take, for the most part, a built-in audience and platform. Simply glory or not, it's the personal connection I want to establish from the get-go and the relationship we develop along the book-creating procedure that is nearly important and impactful to me and to the story itself. The notable personalities I accept the pleasure of working with have been terrific, equally I recall we at Aladdin practice a wonderful task of reflecting what's in their heart(s).
RVC: What most the other celebrity book you've recently acquired, Parker Looks Upward: An Boggling Moment , written by four-year-quondam Parker Curry and her female parent, Jessica ?
KN: This has been a dream come truthful for Jessica and Parker, and to capture their feel on that historical and unforgettable mean solar day, has been a labor of love on our part.
I sure wouldn't desire to disappoint a four-year-old, would you?
RVC: Great point! In a Forbes.com commodity most Parker Looks Up, you lot said, "Does anyone ever know the moment that will forever change their lives?" Got a moment similar that in your ain life you'd like to share? Perchance the one that sent you down the path of kidlit publishing?
KN: Books from my aunt: Charlotte'due south Spider web ; Hello, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle ; The Little Prince .
RVC: What's the best non-traditional preparation yous've had that helped prepare you for your career every bit an editor?
KN: Summer sleep-abroad camp. I'm non kidding.
RVC: Makes sense to me (I learned all besides much at sleep-away camps!). Now some might non know this, merely you're an author, also. How did your own book, Two Crazy Pigs, come most?
KN: My older son came dwelling house from camp (see, it's camp again) one day, singing a airheaded made-up song: Nosotros are two crazy pigs…and I was inspired! What would happen on a farm with two out-of-control piggys?
RVC: Do you accept a sequel or another book in the works?
KN: I take a TCP sequel, and am simply looking for the time to stop information technology…
RVC: I totally empathize that–then many projects, so little time. Now let'due south tackle a writer-pleasing question. What's "out" in the world of picture books? What's yesterday's news? What's the equivalent of parachute pants, which we all love via the nostalgia sheen of memory, but we honestly don't need to see once again in real-life anytime soon?
KN: Everything is cyclical, to my listen. And it seems brusk-sighted to me to pigeonhole an idea equally yesterday's news…
RVC: Fair enough. One a scale of 1 to 11,000, how important is it that an aspiring author have a platform and/or a feasible, robust marketing plan?
KN: These days, 9,000. But then there's the Scottish Grandma reading The Wonky Ass, and I doubt she was officially part of any type of platform or robust marketing plan.
RVC: If I could give you lot a bullhorn powerful enough to attain the ears of every unmarried picture volume author on the planet, only it only had enough juice to piece of work for one sentence, what's the one affair you'd tell them all?
KN: Revise, revise, revise, and call back to listen to and and then speak from your real heart.
RVC: Without further ado, hubbub, or hullabaloo, it's time for … THE SPEED ROUND! Shockingly fast Qs followed by lickety-split As. Ready?
KN: Fix!
RVC: HERE Nosotros GO! Game of Thrones—smashing TV serial or the greatest TV series?
KN: Smashing TV series.
RVC: Which cryptid would make the coolest pet—Sasquatch, Loch Ness Monster, or Chupacabra?
KN: Sasquatch.
RVC: "If I were notwithstanding in book editing but NOT in the world of kidlit, I'd be editing ________."
KN: Biographies of musicians.
RVC: Favorite non-Aladdin picture book from 2018?
KN: All Are Welcome by Alexandra Penfold and Suzanne Kaufman.
RVC: What Aladdin picture books coming out subsequently this year are you most excited nearly?
KN: Superbuns! By Diane Kredensor. The Presidents: Portraits of History past Leah Tinari. Parker Looks Upwards by Parker Curry and Jessica Back-scratch. Amy Wu and the Perfect Bao past Kat Zhang.
RVC: What's the three-item checklist for your dream picture show book manuscript?
KN: Well-written; funny; out-of-the-box.
RVC: Thank you a bunch, Karen. Information technology's been a pleasure helping the Only Picture Book family become to know you better.
Rosie the Dragon and Charlie Make Waves
Writer: Lauren H. Kerstein
Illustrator: Nate Wragg
Two Lions
1 May 2019
forty pages
It'due south summertime, and you lot're invited for a rollicking day at the pool with Charlie and his pet dragon (and all-time friend!), Rosie. Only exist careful—pond with a dragon can be,um, challenging.
Need some reviews of Rosie the Dragon and Charlie Make Waves?
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Educational Activities inspired past Lauren H. Kerstein's Rosie the Dragon and Charlie Make Waves:
- Before Reading–From looking at the front cover:
- Where practise you call back Rosie and Charlie are making waves?
- What blazon of human relationship practice they seem to accept?
- Does the story look like it's nearly today or a long time ago?
- After Reading–
- Among other things, this volume is about safe at public pools. What do y'all at present know about pool safety?
- What do you call up Rosie likes most well-nigh Charlie'southward gluey snacks?
- Which character do you think is nigh like you? Charlie or Rosie? Why?
- Writing–This book ends with Rosie wanting to acquire to read. Write the story of what happens the adjacent day when Charlie tries to teach her to read. What kind of trouble does Rosie get into (nosotros KNOW she gets into trouble)?
- Crafts–With an developed'south help, endeavor some of the post-obit dragon-themed crafts:
- No-run up Dragon Mask–Requires a lot of cloth, but wow, it's worth it. Perfect for a Halloween costume or around-the-house dragon fun.
- Gleaming Dragon Eyes–Marbles, paint, and lots of fun. Y'all can use a paint pen instead, if y'all want.
- Paper Dragon Puppets–A 10-minute, nigh no-mess craft. Information technology's inspired by How to Train Your Dragon.
- Paper Dinosaur Lid and Back Spine–Like shooting fish in a barrel plenty for a 4‑twelvemonth one-time to make.
- Dragon Bookmark–Makes an easy Chinese New Yr souvenir too.
- Further Reading–Who doesn't similar dragons, right? While the dragons in the following books aren't swimming in a pool, they are doing some fun things. Which of these looks almost dragon-tastic to you? (Click on the book cover for more data on any of these titles!)
This month's Author/Illustrator Interview is with Fred Koehler, who first got on my radar at the 2017 SCBWI regional briefing in Miami. I was sitting in the dorsum row for the Heidi Stemple and Jane Yolen Picture Volume Intensive, and this quiet, crimson-haired dude slipped into the chair backside me as the event started, and he ended upwardly doodling/drawing/sketching the entire time. During ane of the breaks, I finally asked him who he was and what kind of piece of work he'd done, if whatsoever.
Fred kind of shrugged and said he'd done "a few things" and "had another thing coming out," but didn't give whatever indication that he was talking virtually his analogy work on "things" like One Solar day, the Cease and This Book Is Non Nigh Dragons, equally well as his ain author/illustrated books How to Cheer Up Dad and Super Jumbo.
Fashion to irksome play it, Fred.
Simply in case you don't yet have the total 411 on the fun coolness that is Fred, hither are Five Fredtastically Freddifying Facts to help yous out. Only one fact is an "alternate fact," meaning 100% completely fakeroo-false. (If you can't tell which one's the fabricated falsehood, I'll dish that respond in the finale of this interview.)
1—He'southward got a canis familiaris named Good day Mutt-face McChubbybutt.
ii—There's an official Penguin Kids promo video for How to Cheer Up Dad where Fred gets hitting in the face with Silly String and then a whipped cream pie.
3—Fred bankrupt the Guinness World Record for having the largest traveling children'southward book.
4—Fred bet me I couldn't work 13+ words that begin with F in a single short bio-fashion paragraph.
5— Fred'southward existent-life misadventures include sunken boats, shark encounters, and a hurricane.
Need a scrap more to REALLY experience like you know Fred? Here's a KidLit Telly video where he shows yous how to draw a puppy!
With that, we're ready. We're set. It's time to Fred it on!
Website: https://www.ilikefred.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/superfredd
Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/superfredd
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fred_koehler_/
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7135838.Fred_Koehler
RVC: Let's begin with the place where and then much begins for you— Mitchell's Coffee House . What's the dealio?
FK: For me, every work infinite has a vibe and a specific energy. That energy might be emotional, psychic, kinetic (or information technology might all exist in my caput). Since I started going to Mitchell's in college, it's always been "home turf," where adept vibes flow and I can even become back behind the counter and refill my coffee if it'due south busy.
RVC: You're besides pretty darn active in social media in a way that people seem to dig. What'south your seems-to-be-working philosophy?
FK: My formula is simple: Exist open about my failures. Joke about them and learn from them in real time. I don't go for perfect considering my life is by and large a mess. Perfect isn't accurate or conceivable.
RVC: One of the constants in your path to success seems to take been SCBWI (Gild of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators). Share how that system played a role in your own journeying.
FK: I adopt to exist a alone wolf, simply I'one thousand slowly realizing that you have to accept community. For the publishing world, at that place'due south no better community than SCBWI. Loads of similar-minded people, bully instruction, and specific opportunities to connect with publishing dealmakers.
RVC: Any tips on how SCBWI can help launch the careers for other authors, illustrators, and author/illustrators?
FK: I recommend showing up to make friends, not deals. And then you start to encounter it as a lifelong journey, non some prize you're racing to win. Y'all can find peace with where you're at, and all the same keep the burn lit to get where you want to exist.
RVC: Let's pivot this downwards. You've done illustrating. Yous've done author-illustrating. So, practise you consider yourself to exist a words-first or pictures-commencement story creator?
FK: I sold my start two books as writer/illustrator. Simply earlier that, I wrote some really terrible stuff including a novel-that-must-not-exist-named-and-will-never-exist-published. Most stories play out in my head like a movie, complete with narrative voiceover and camera management. I can choose to write downwardly what the narrator is saying, sketch out what the camera is seeing, or even swoop into the head of one of the characters and draw the story through their perspectives and biases.
All of that, in a nutshell, is my superpower.
RVC: One of the benefits of being an illustrator is that you tin can justify a lot of trips for photographic/visual reference. (Okay, writers practise this besides!) When you lot illustrated Matt Forrest Esenwine's picture book, Flashlight Nighttime, you went a bit overboard with the inquiry. What did you do to set yous to illustrate that book?
FK: Well, the manuscript called for castles and waterfalls, old ships and strange shores. So, I did what any illustrator would do and hopped a flight to Manchester so I could bum up and downward the Britain for a few weeks and find photographic reference for all of these illustrations. I did it all the cheap–youth hostels and public transit.
I had simply well-nigh every take chances that the characters had in the book. Made friends. Got lost. Even bled a bit. I'd do it again in a heartbeat.
RVC: Y'all're fortunate enough to phone call kidlit queen Jane Yolen a friend and a mentor. What are some of the most important lessons that she'south given you, explicitly or implicitly?
FK: Jane is famous for all sorts of great advice for writers. My favorite is most luck. She figures that luck makes its own path through the ether, wandering where it will to bless the heads and hearts (and wallets) of mortals at its own whimsy. But she also figures that there are things we can practice as creatives to invite luck in, to nudge ourselves toward its path. Hard work is at the top of that list. If yous've got a house in club and a handbag packed when luck knocks on your door, y'all'll be ready to join information technology on an adventure.
RVC: Since we're talking about relationships with writers—what's the best role near being married to another writer? (For those who don't know, his wife is YA novelist Sarah McGuire, author of the terrific books Valiant and The Flight of Swans.)
FK: This is kind of deep, merely one amazing affair about Sarah is being able to know her through the books she reads and writes. When she tells me how the Chronicles of Narnia sent her racing through her home, opening cabinets and closets trying to observe an archway, I know that we share a sense of the numinous. Or if I read a scene she wrote almost, permit's say, betrayal, I could feel how deeply that knife cuts for her. An honest writer lays bare their soul on the folio, warts and all. Who else gets to read and autumn in love with another person's soul? Nosotros're a lucky pair.
RVC: Speaking of novels—talk a chip well-nigh how you moved your kidlit career from purely moving-picture show books to including a center grade novel like Garbage Isle (The Nearly E'er Perilous Adventures of Archibald Shrew).
FK: Story came to me almost naturally through words, and so novels were my commencement love. I was simply awful at writing them. But the format of a picture books honed my ability to tell a story succinctly and to add together depth and meaning in the negative space. So, when I sabbatum down to pen a novel after working on numerous picture books, I had a new sense of vision for what it could be.
Writing coach Joyce Sweeney taught me a lot about novel arts and crafts. And I'd be remiss if I didn't mention the Writer360 Breakout Novel Intensive every bit the grooming that filled in additional gaps in my novelist toolkit. And to bring everything full circle, that proactive work nudged me into the path of luck in the course of a publisher excited near whatsoever I came up with next. And when luck came knocking, I was ready.
RVC: Let's look forward. You're under contract to write The Sailing Urban center (Boyds Mills Press, 2020), which is the sequel to Garbage Island. Tin you share a little bit well-nigh that new book?
FK: The second novel was harder than the debut, and it's still in starting time laissez passer editorial and so it's hard to really fifty-fifty say. I half expect to get a letter of the alphabet saying, "Dear Fred, This sequel is an exceptional manner to waste material months of everyone's time and 60,000 words." Only I'll let you know.
RVC: You've been warned. I've been warned. All the elephants in Fred'due south picture books have been warned. Only hither nosotros all are—it'due south fourth dimension for THE SPEED Round! Fast Qs and equally fast As, please!
FK: Bring it!
RVC: Potato tots or French fries?
FK: Tots.
RVC: Best Sabbatum afternoon action: fishing, writing, or drawing?
FK: I'1000 a fisherman starting time, creative person 2d.
RVC: Coolest Harry Potter spell that doesn't yet exist?
FK: Abra-ka-dinner.
RVC: The #1 picture book writer yous'd LOVE to illustrate for?
FK: I don't intendance who wrote it. But send me a manuscript that's equally brilliant, unusual, and incommunicable.
RVC: Best compliment by a kid reader?
FK: I got a alphabetic character recently from a reader who loved Garbage Island, and afterwards started picking up trash in his neighborhood so it wouldn't end up in the bounding main. Does it get any better than that?
RVC: Three words that sum upwardly your relationship with kidlit.
FK: Let'southward stick with "vivid, unusual, and impossible."
RVC: Thanks and then much, Fred! Much appreciated!
**For those of you lot who needed to cheat to figure out which of the Fred Facts is false, information technology'south #iv. The over-the-top F business concern is all me. BlameOPB.
The Panda Trouble
Author: Deborah Underwood
Illustrator: Hannah Marks
Punch Books
2 April 2019
48 pages
This month'sAtomic number 82 review is by Ryan G. Van Cleave (Biggest Panda Fan at Only Picture show Books) and OPB review newcomer, Florida author-illustrator Loreen Leedy.
–Ryan'southward Review of the Writing–
One thing that nosotros've come to expect from Underwood's books is how stories themselves are often office of the story. In her latest movie book, The Panda Problem, that'south exactly what's happening. A Narrator (yes, that's with a capital N since this i's quite the agile character hither) is trying to set up a story about Panda in a "beautiful bamboo grove," only despite the Narrator's insistence that a main graphic symbol has to have a problem, Panda claims to non have 1. "Looks similar you're the one with a trouble, buddy," Panda explains to the Narrator.
The story gets fairly chaotic from there in a fun manner that will delight readers, especially once the setting moves far from the bamboo grove. Thankfully, the art clearly showcases the two distinct voices. Panda'south words are always in cartoon-style voice communication bubbles, and those by the Narrator look like regular text on the folio, which gives the words an adult, authorial seriousness to them. Together, they create a fast-paced dialogue that roars along as Panda tries to help make the story, well, a story. Sort of.
A bonus is that Underwood includes enough of kid-pleasing sound effects, also (witness a spider who says "BRAAAAP!" and the GLUG GLUG SLOSH of Panda's newspaper boat wipeout).
While other flick volume authors have had characters who wrest control of the story from a narrator/author, Underwood's ambrosial Panda does information technology in a fun, memorable way that doesn't get overly meta and also introduces readers to storytelling techniques (such every bit dialogue and the escalation of stakes).
Even though I'k an admitted panda conduct fan, this is a highly entertaining, witty read regardless.
four.25 out of five pencils
– Loreen'southward Review of the Illustrations–
The premise of this derisive moving picture book tin be found on the book jacket as Panda disputes the championship The Panda Problem correct on the front cover by asking, "What problem?" Mysterious circular royal characters hint at mysteries to unfold. On the back cover, Panda is smirking after drawing a line through the floating headline NO Trouble, NO STORY and rewriting it as NO STORY, NO PROBLEM!
Standing the theme, the front flap copy originally stated that the writer "…puts readers in control of this story." However, our principal character has revised it to read "…puts readers PANDA in control of this story." The dorsum flap copy has likewise been extensively revised by the irrepressible bear.
The color scheme is at first limited to black, white, olive greens, and majestic only. The digitally painted illustrations include bamboo stalks with a subtle textile texture and energetic dry brushed leaves, while Panda has loosely drawn line piece of work enclosing the white parts of the body. Backgrounds are primarily white infinite in the beginning of the book, keeping the focus on Panda and the statement with the Narrator about whether or non Panda needs a story trouble to be solved. The empty white infinite tin can also be an indication of the (seemingly) unfinished state the story is in.
As the debate continues, 1 spread is filled with possible problems proposed by the Narrator such as "Are you afraid of spiders?" or "Is your paw sore?" and Panda's repeated answers, "Nope." Once they're mentioned, comical spiders appear in the artwork. The Narrator'due south words are in a clean sans serif font while Panda speaks with lively handwritten words within expressive speech balloons with oval, undulating, or spiky shapes. When the Narrator gets particularly frustrated, her words are ready in ALLCAPS.
Rich photographic textures add interest and additional colors to the illustrations, such as woven fibers in a hammock, forest grain in a banjo, and crumpled paper in a sailboat. As Panda induces a multi-hued torrent of jelly beans by merely mentioning the possibility, the Narrator loses command of events. At this bespeak the aliens arrive, portrayed equally happy purple fuzzballs who accompany Panda to Antarctica.
The scenes become increasingly chaotic as spiders, penguins, aliens, and (suddenly) twin pandas sail across the icy waters so are shipwrecked. Panda'due south worried face up is seen in extreme close-up while finally giving in and admitting at that place's a problem. After wailing about their hunger and the consummate lack of bamboo in Antarctica, the two pandas brand a deal for the Narrator to accept over once again, sort of. The last page is blank except for the Narrator'south terminal, satisfying word.
Self-taught illustrator and designer Hannah Marks lives and works in England; The Panda Problem is her first picture volume released in the U.s.. The design of the blazon and illustrations perfectly complement and extend the concepts within about the power of words, inventiveness, writing, characters, illustration, and of class, story problems.
4 out of 5 crayons
Loreen Leedy is the author-illustrator of more than 40 popular motion picture books that have received many rave reviews and honors. Her titles such as Measuring Penny , Amazing Plant Powers, and Crazy Like a Play tricks: A Simile Story frequently include math, science, and language arts content. Her well-nigh contempo book, Pace by Step , features footprints fabricated past babe animals including a puppy, duckling, and fawn in a page-turning question and answer format. It makes an appealing nonfiction option for preschool, kindergarten, and first grade historic period levels.
To come across Loreen's work and download free book action printables, please visit www.LoreenLeedy.com.
Source: https://www.onlypicturebooks.com/2019/06/
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