Joanna Marple
In my 20's, with only my guitar and a rucksack, I wandered the continents, immersing myself in the lives of some wonderful people, projects and stories, which changed the way I view my responsibility to others and this earth. Right now I'm a European transplant in the US who writes books for children and young adults. Stories can help us not only navigate our world but can connect us to others, and allow us to inspire and help each other. I believe that equity and empathy should be at the core of our all actions, words, and stories. I am also a school librarian and I get a kick out of book-matchmaking! And I use the pronouns she/her.
Diverse Children’s Books
12×12 Challenge
Category Archives: Interview
Rahele Jomepour Bell – Illustrator Interview
I encountered Rahele’s work through this year’s Tomie de Paola SCBW illustrator competition where the prompt was: to illustrate a moment from a passage from Philip Pullman’s version of “Little Red Riding Hood” from FAIRY TALES FROM THE BROTHERS GRIMM (Viking, … Continue reading
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Tagged Errol Le Cain, Feodor Rojankovsky, Fritz Baumgarten, Hans Arnold, Illustrator interview, Iran, Kam?l ud-D?n Behz?d, kay Nielsen, Little Red Riding Hood, Marla Frazee, Maurice Sendak, picture books, Rahele Jompour Bell, Renata Liwska, SCBWI, Sultan Muhammad, Tomie Di Paola, Yuri Vasnetsov
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Jonathan Bean – Illustrator Interview
Jonathan Bean has a knack of writing picture books with families I want to belong to and characters I want to be. Such levels of identification are rare for me with picture books compared to MG and YA novels. I … Continue reading
Katherine Dunn – Illustrator Interview
It was my friend, Emma Dryden, who first got me interested in Katherine, Apifera and her art when she published The MisfIts of Love in 2013. I have been following The Head Troll, Rosie and Ernest, two pigs, the arrival … Continue reading
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Tagged Apifera Farm, Illustrator interview, Katherine Dunn, the misfits
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