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Perfect endings?
As much as I enjoy – nay, DELIGHT in writing picture books, I do have one beef to pick. In a character-driven narrative, the main character must overcome an obstacle (or at minimum show growth that comes from encountering the obstacle) and the main character, ideally,...
AFFIRMATION!
Gambel’s Quail earns Honorable Mention in Vivian Kirkfield’s #50PreciousWords International Writing Contest
How to Build a Reader
The checkerboard Zoom screen is not how most of us imagine a child’s first weeks of school. But due to shelter-in-place restrictions last fall, instead of gathering 26 squirming bodies to the rug of her brightly decorated classroom, Teresa Sorensen, in her 34th year...
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Published poet & kidlit writer
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