Gennifer Choldenko
EVERY LAST SECRET ABOUT WRITING NOVELS FOR CHILDREN
How do you discover a voice inside yourself that appeals to children? Finding your author's voice is enough of a challenge and most of us are many miles down the road from our childhood.
Award-winning children's book writer, Gennifer Choldenko wants to share the secrets of her craft, "leaving off the part that sounds good, but doesn't really help." Drawing on her editor's suggestions as well as her own painstaking trial and error, she feels she has learned a lot of techniques that she can share. The process has ensured that each of her books is better than the last.
Released last May, Notes from a Liar and Her
Dog
(Penguin
USA), has been selected by book clubs,
won
numerous awards, was reprinted in French, Spanish and German, and is
also
available in an audio recording.
Tales of a Second Grade Giant
and Al Capone Does My Shirts will both be out in Spring,
2003.
Visit the author's colorful and humorous website. Many reviews of her books are reprinted there.
A search on google.com yielded over 500 hits.
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