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As part of the society’s thirtieth annual conference, Mr. Peck, author of A Year Down Yonder and A Long Way from Chicago, described the process of removing the adult presence of the author f…

As part of the society’s thirtieth annual conference, Ms. Lamb, who is also vice president of Random House’s Children’s Trade Book Group, talked about the role of the editor in the writing p…

Editors spoke about publishing children’s books and about what they look for in a manuscript. Among the topics they addressed were storytelling techniques, plot development, and writing styl…

Jane Yolen, author of over 200 children’s books and winner of the Caldecott Medal, discussed the ways in which good stories are written. She outlined her speech in an alphabetical format wit…

Panelists talked about the marketing and promotion of children’s books. The panel was part of the Mid-year National Conference of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. Aft…