December 2012 by illustrator Susan Sorrell Hill<\/a><\/strong>. The original painting can be viewed here<\/a><\/strong> in her Etsy shop. Warm thanks to Susan.<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n
Blogging here at 7-Imp is a labor of love, but it has fortuitously brought about some freelance writing in my life as well:<\/p>\n
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Wild Things: Acts of Mischief in Children’s Literature<\/em>, published by Candlewick Press and written with Betsy Bird<\/a><\/strong> and the late Peter D. Sieruta<\/a><\/strong>, was published in 2014. Here<\/a><\/strong> is our book’s website. In 2016, I received the James Marshall Fellowship from the University of Connecticut and wrote about that experience here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n In 2007, I also co-authored some pieces for the Poetry Foundation’s website: <\/p>\n Note: The illustration at the top of this page was created specifically for 7-Imp inDecember 2012 by illustrator Susan Sorrell Hill. The original painting can be viewed here in her Etsy shop. Warm thanks to Susan. * * * * * * * Blogging here at 7-Imp is a labor of love, but it has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":2,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"free_page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1071","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1071\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nI review picture books for Kirkus Reviews<\/a><\/strong><\/em>. And for nearly a decade (2011 to 2019), I contributed weekly columns and Q&As at Kirkus<\/em> as one of their children’s lit bloggers. You can visit this link<\/a><\/strong> to read those.
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\nI write picture book reviews and occasionally conduct Q&As with picture book authors and illustrators for BookPage<\/em>. You can see those writings here<\/a><\/strong>.
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\nI write for the Horn Book<\/em> in various capacities. I review for them, and I blog for them \u2014 and I’ve written some features for the magazine. Those writings are online here<\/a>
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\nOne of the places I write for at the Horn Book<\/em> is their Calling Caldecott<\/a><\/strong><\/em> blog, which is a fab place to go if you like to read about picture books.
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\nI write for Tennessee’s wonderful Chapter 16<\/em>, a publication of Humanities Tennessee. Those pieces are here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n