March 12, 2013
That
was the headline for an e-mail I received last week . . . "Why wait?"
The message was from Diana, and with her...
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My life in 8 words: "Challenging, fulfilling, interesting, filled with gratitude and hope"
March 5, 2013
Whoever
it was who said "Ninety percent of the pleasure of travel is in
anticipation and the other ten percent is in...
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February 26, 2013
Not long after I fell on the early December ice, dislocated my elbow and broke the radial bone, I wrote about having discovered...
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February 25, 2013
"Must they be funny?" It's what Shonna McNasby asked following my last blog. And her thoughtful question calls for a...
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February 13, 2013
It was a lyrical picture-book text. The subject was spring. And it
bounced back because the editor found the...
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February 5, 2013
Last
July I was on the east coast, having traveled there to receive an
honorary MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts where I...
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January 30, 2013
Perhaps
it's a curse, this business of putting your thoughts out there for
other folks to see. When you do your mulling silently...
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January 23, 2013
Every
time I happen across a children's television program where adult actors
are pretending to be children I am grateful that...
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January 16, 2013
“How
do you know,” a reader asked, “when a picture book is right?” She was
writing in response to my blog about my most...
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January 8, 2013
If necessity is the mother of invention, then perhaps disaster—even a relatively small one—is the mother of...
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January 3, 2013
Every
morning, right around 6 a.m., I spring awake. I could stay in bed
longer if I wanted to, but I'm done with sleep. I step...
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December 12, 2012
The boy sat at his desk, his long legs splayed in front of him, his face twisted in disbelief. "What makes you think you...
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December 12, 2012
Once
you're published, you hear a lot these days about "branding," about
getting settled into and known in a single genre. No...
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November 28, 2012
In the last few weeks I’ve been talking about writing for the pure
love of writing, not as a career, and then I turned to...
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November 14, 2012
Last week I talked about the benefits of writing for your own deep
pleasure, not having to depend on this uncertain craft to...
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November 7, 2012
One of my editors said to me recently, “I tried to support myself
with my writing once. The whole endeavor lasted for about a...
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November 2, 2012
I talked last week about the years I spent plumbing novels for scraps
of ideas about God. What I found in church and discovered...
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October 24, 2012
Last week I took on same-sex marriage. While I’m on a roll, I might as well talk about religion, too.
There aren’t...
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There aren’t...
October 17, 2012
In this new and sometimes bewildering world of blogging, bloggers are
advised to stake out a territory. Define who you are, what...
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October 8, 2012
Last week I talked about my new picture book, Halloween Forest, and
about the function that fear has in a story, even for...
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September 25, 2012
Halloween is almost upon us, and my newest picture book, Halloween Forest, is on the shelf.
When I received my first...
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When I received my first...
September 19, 2012
A while back, talking about gathering ideas for a sequel to Little Dog, Lost, I wrote, "I'm off and running, the story...
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August 29, 2012
When I first mentioned the MFA in Writing for Children and Young
Adults program at Vermont College of Fine Arts in this blog, I...
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August 8, 2012
Last week I quoted Dallas Bradel and her support for my call to keep adults more present in stories for young people. I agreed,...
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August 6, 2012
I've been sharing my readers' responses to my July 10th blog about excluding adults from our stories. Here's a response...
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August 6, 2012
In 1976 when I published my first middle-grade novel, the lines were clearly drawn. If you wrote for young people, you had to be...
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August 6, 2012
I mentioned last week that I’ve received a number of interesting
comments on my blog on July 10th concerning the long-standing...
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July 6, 2012
I mentioned in my blog last week that in gathering ideas for another story set in Erthly, the home of Little Dog,...
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July 6, 2012
Writers need other writers. It is such a solitary occupation, this sitting in front of a computer—or a typewriter or a pad of...
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July 6, 2012
Usually ideas for a novel grow slowly, gathering over a period of weeks or months from bits and pieces that cling to a central...
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July 6, 2012
I once had a friend who made a point of not telling me about the more dramatic events in her life because she was convinced that...
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June 5, 2012
I love revising. Revising is so much more fun than facing the terror of the blank page/computer screen.
And that's the...
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And that's the...
June 5, 2012
I was born wanting to write. Or at least I was born with my head full of stories. (My elementary school teachers used to write...
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June 5, 2012
Most readers, I suspect, assume that a story’s perceiving character will come from the writer’s own psyche, at least to some...
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June 5, 2012
I've been thinking lately about computers I have worked with. I don't usually have much of a relationship with machines. The...
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May 11, 2012
I've been talking about fictional character as illusion, created out of my own psyche or borrowed from the world around...
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May 7, 2012
Win a set of 35 bookmarks (2" x 6" in size), one for each child in your classroom. “Like”
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May 7, 2012
When my daughter was ten or eleven, she used to say from time to time, “Mom, write a book about me. You could call it...
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April 19, 2012
Last week I mentioned that every story springs from the writer's own longing. Even the most careful readers would find it...
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April 19, 2012
Not every story has to be lived to be written. That's what imagination is for. If writers are going to produce more than one or...
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April 19, 2012
I’ve just returned from a research trip for the young-adult novel I’m working on, Blue-Eyed Wolf.
Well, actually, it...
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March 22, 2012
How many times have I said it to my students and to other developing writers? When you're publishing a book, celebrate every...
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March 15, 2012
When I began writing fiction for young people in the mid-seventies, I
had absorbed one of the most basic rules for such books...
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March 15, 2012
I got the idea for this blog when I was meditating this morning. Yes, I know, I'm not supposed to get ideas meditating. In fact,...
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March 8, 2012
I have received letters from adults indignant about my novel, A Very Little Princess (the first of two stories about a...
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March 1, 2012
I've been asked the question many times, almost always by non-writers. Or if the question comes from a writer it is, for...
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February 24, 2012
That was the headline on a news story on NPRs “All Things Considered”
last week. Oh, no, I thought. Everything,...
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February 17, 2012
I am about a third of the way into writing a young-adult novel called Blue-Eyed Wolf, far
enough in to feel a sense of...
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January 31, 2012
"Are you writing anything?" people often ask. It is, I assume, just a
conversation starter when they can't think of a...
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January 31, 2012
I've been thinking about my career lately. Looking back over the
thirty-five years since my first novel was published. Looking...
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Author Voices:
Why Wait?Mar 13, 2013
Author Voices:
Kids Saving the Rain ForestMar 06, 2013
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Betrayed by DragonFeb 27, 2013
Author Voices:
Must They Be Funny?Feb 26, 2013
Author Voices:
The Sadness of MaturityFeb 20, 2013
Author Voices:
Whale WatchingFeb 06, 2013
Author Voices:
Starting Over and Over and OverJan 31, 2013
Author Voices:
What Did I Learn?Jan 24, 2013
Author Voices:
Is Remembering Enough?Jan 24, 2013
Author Voices:
How Do You Know?Jan 17, 2013
News:
A Mama for Owen has won an awardJan 12, 2013
Author Voices:
A Surprising New Way of WritingJan 09, 2013
Flood! will be released on January 08, 2013 in eBook
Jan 08, 2013
Flood! is now available in eBook
Jan 08, 2013
Author Voices:
Starting OverJan 04, 2013
Author Voices:
A Happy Christmouse to All!Jan 03, 2013
Marion Dane Bauer's Books
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Little Dog, LostA “wholly satisfying” (Kirkus Reviews) novel in verse starring a boy, a lost dog, and a lonely old man, from Newbery Honoree Marion Dane...Read More
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Love Song for a BabyMarion Dane Bauer's Love Song for a Baby is now available as a Classic Board Book!Read More
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Thank You for Me!This adorable young picture book by Marion Dane Bauer and Kristina Stephenson gives thanks for your nose, toes, and everything in between!Read More
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Mama for OwenOwen the baby hippo and his mama were best friends. They loved to play hide-and-seek on the banks of the Sabaki River in Africa. That was all before...Read More
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A Mummy for OwenBased on the true story of a baby hippo who loses his mother in the Tsunami and is adopted by a new mummy - a 130-year-old male giant tortoise.Read More
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Rebecca of Sunnybrook FarmWhen Rebecca Rowena Randall goes to live with her spinster aunts in Riverboro, Rebecca's aunts find her to be more of a handful than they bargained...Read More
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Picayune Item, March 27, 2013
...recently authored Look! and Stable and illustrated The World’s Greatest Lion (Ralph Helfer) and The Longest Night (Marion Dane Bauer) among many others. — Grace Lin is the author and illustrator of picture books, early readers and middle grade...
Huffington Post, February 28, 2013
...Story of Rosa Parks by Faith Ringgold Grade 1+ My First Biography: Martin Luther King, Jr. , Written by Marion Dane Bauer and Illustrated by Jamie Smith Grade 1+ Cassie's Word Quilt by Faith Ringgold Grade 1+ Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up...
Tulsa World, February 4, 2013
...making up new "feet" words can also be fittingly fun. "Toes, Ears, & Nose! A Lift-the-Flap Book": by Marion Dane Bauer, illustrated by Karen Katz. This board book survived my thieving dogs, who thought they found a new chew toy. That should tell you...
Examiner.com, January 16, 2013
...of honor for Martin Luther King, Jr. on January 21. Young children will participate in celebrations at school. Marion Dane Bauer's "Martin Luther King, Jr., " from Scholastic's...
Seattle Times, November 20, 2012
...an active alphabet book with a multicultural group of children running races and giving giggles. “Dinosaur Thunder” by Marion Dane Bauer and illustrated by Margaret Chodos-Irvine (Scholastic, $16.99). For ages 3-6. Little Brannon is scared of the...
Bend Bulletin, October 5, 2012
...a couple of great spooky tales to get you in the mood for Halloween. This time, prolific author Marion Dane Bauer presents us with a tale of a young trick-or-treater who hazards a forest of bones in search of candy. The illustrations of the bone forest...
Edge Miami, September 17, 2012
...that depicted a LGBT family, and I have been teaching young children for over 10 years!" Noted authors Marion Dane Bauer (Newbery Award), Nancy Garden (Margaret A. Edwards Award), Gregory Maguire (author of Wicked), and Jacqueline Woodson (Newbery...
EHow.com, May 7, 2013
...George Washington" or "The Story of Abraham Lincoln" by Patricia A. Pingry, "My First Biography: Abraham Lincoln" by Marion Dane Bauer or "Presidents' Day" by Anne Rockwell. Presidential Portrait Theme Create a variety of activities around a presidential...
Huffington Post, February 28, 2013
...Story of Rosa Parks by Faith Ringgold Grade 1+ My First Biography: Martin Luther King, Jr. , Written by Marion Dane Bauer and Illustrated by Jamie Smith Grade 1+ Cassie's Word Quilt by Faith Ringgold Grade 1+ Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up...
PublishersWeekly.com, February 25, 2013
...out the season with Celebrating Arizona: Fifty States to Celebrate and Celebrating Virginia: Fifty States to Celebrate by Marion Dane Bauer, illus. by C.B. Canga, two new level 3 Green Light Readers starring Mr. Geo who shares fun facts about the titular...
Tulsa World, February 4, 2013
...making up new "feet" words can also be fittingly fun. "Toes, Ears, & Nose! A Lift-the-Flap Book": by Marion Dane Bauer, illustrated by Karen Katz. This board book survived my thieving dogs, who thought they found a new chew toy. That should tell you...
Seattle Times, November 20, 2012
...an active alphabet book with a multicultural group of children running races and giving giggles. “Dinosaur Thunder” by Marion Dane Bauer and illustrated by Margaret Chodos-Irvine (Scholastic, $16.99). For ages 3-6. Little Brannon is scared of the...
PressReleasePoint, August 31, 2012
...7:00 EST with the presentation entitled “The Basics of Writing Successful Picture Books” by Newbery Honor Winner, Marion Dane Bauer. Aspiring authors have been closed out of great conferences, have had to travel great distances to hear from...
EveningSun.com, August 13, 2012
...fiction "Ghost Knight," by Cornelia Funke. (Perpetual Memorial - Arlene Utz Hollinger) "Little Dog, Lost," by Marion Dane Bauer. (Perpetual Memorial - Edgar W. Klinedinst) "Summer Treasure," by Margaret McNamara. (Perpetual Memorial - Sophie...
