Get to know April… April Chu began her career as an architect with a degree from the University of California, Berkeley, but decided to return to her true passion of illustrating and storytelling. She recalls spending most of her childhood drawing whimsical characters in her notebook after school every day, and …
Get to know Thanhha… Thanhha Lai was born in Saigon, Vietnam, immigrated to Montgomery, Alabama after the war in 1975, and currently lives north of New York City. She wrote Inside Out & Back Again, published in 2011 and Listen, Slowly, published February 17, 2015. She also started a not-for-profit organization called Viet Kids …
Get to know Amy… Amy Dixon grew up as one of seven siblings, so the only peace and quiet she ever got was inside a book. Once she had her own kids, she rediscovered her love for picture books at the public library. It was the one place she knew …
Get to know Eileen… Eileen Rosenbloom achieved first-publication success when she won a contest for penning her own obituary. After publication of numerous articles and short stories, her first YA novel, Stuck Down, was accepted by Llewellyn Publications and released in 2005. She is currently working on a book for …