“Readers often think that a finished book appears on bookstore or library shelves the way the author wrote it the first time out of the gate,” aut...

Illustrator Laurie Allen Klein can’t remember a time she didn’t have a pencil in hand and paper ready to draw. “[As a young girl], I would sit f...

Jewell Parker Rhodes will never forget the first story she wrote in third grade. It was called “The Last Scream.” She remembers reading it aloud t...

When Beth Ain sets out to write a story, she first makes lists to keep track of her thoughts. She begins by making a list about the characters, and th...

Writer Andrew Clements seems to know a lot about what middle school kids feel. In the book Troublemaker, Clayton Hensley is mischievous but not quite ...