Turning Trauma Into Purpose: How I Turned a Traumatic Brain Injury Into a Writing Mission https://www.writersdigest.com/turning-trauma-into-purpose-how-i-turned-a-traumatic-brain-injury-into-a-writing-mission #WritingHabitsandPractices #RepresentationInFiction #WriteBetterFiction #picturebookwriting #WritingAndTrauma #TheWriter'sLife #TraumaInFiction #representation #picturebook #BeInspired #Children's #Kindness #Purpose #Genre

Proud to announce that my upcoming #nonfiction #picturebook is This Is Your Fight! Genora Johnson and the Flint Sit-Down Strike, to be published by Harper Collins next year. And it's being illustrated by The Brave Union (artists Kevin and Kristen Howdeshell)!

Yesterday marked the anniversary of the end of the 1936-37 strike- one of the most successful in American history. Workers occupied GM factories in Flint and persuaded the automaker to recognize the UAW.

Photo shows Genora (second in from the right) with fellow members of the Women's Emergency Brigade- a group she organized to protect the striking men. #unions #UAW #laborhistory #labor #generalstrike #books

Four stars:

A Bad Case of Stripes by David Shannon (1998) is about a girl who suffers the consequences of trying to fit in. Like Pinkalicious the solution to the problem is vegetables; in Camilla's case it's specifically lima beans.

https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_02/bad_case_of_stripes.html

#bookstodon #PictureBook
@bookstodon

My reading in recent months has been trains and badgers. This is Thaddeus Badger from Unsettling Salad! by Aaron Reynolds and Peter Brown (Illustrator). It just released.

#reading #pictureBook #badger #bookstodon
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Always a pleasure to be involved with the Writing Magazine Children's Book Prize. Delighted to announce the longlist today. Congratulations to all writers who completed a story and entered, and to those who have been longlisted.

Good luck going into the next round. The shortlist will be announced on Friday.

#WritingCommunity
#Writingcompetition
#PictureBook
#KidLit
@bookstodon

#Lesetipp:

Moin,

wir wurden auf einen interessanten Bildband zu Lüzerath und RWEs Aktivitäten aufmerksam:

Daniel #Chatard – Niemandsland

Interessant eventuell für @Wochenendrebellen, @Der_Waeller und weitere.

ISBN: 978-94-93363-07-6

Sascha

#RWE #Lüzerath #Umweltschutz #Energie #FossilLobby #Bildband #Picturebook #Umwelt

👋 Hey friends, especially agents, publishers, and fellow picture book artists! I’m rethinking my online portfolio and need your perspective:

For picture book portfolios, do you prefer a scrollable page showing full images, or a grid of thumbnails to click? Which gives you a sense of the work quickly? #PictureBook #LiteraryAgents #Illustration #ArtTips

Writing a Picture Book After Multiple Middle-Grade Novels https://www.writersdigest.com/writing-a-picture-book-after-multiple-middle-grade-novels #middlegradecharacters #WriteBetterFiction #picturebookwriting #middlegrade #picturebook #Children's #Genre

#picturebook will never abolish #dilbert.

#Recommendation #liminalspace

Hey,

if you like liminal space photography, the book
Abandoned Australia
might be for you. Features some pages that fit this subject perfectly.

See here https://jonglezpublishing.com/product/abandoned-australia/

Sascha

#Australia #Picturebook #Photography

Picture book reading - The Chicken with Pink Toes

https://makertube.net/w/1KQxjQm12nUy8p9yjRtKBk

Illustration from "The Crazy Car Caper," a picture book I wrote in childhood. 1960s. #illustration #picturebook #childhood #childhoodcreativity #creativity #drawing #drawings #car #cars #automobile #automobiles #coloredpencil #coloredpencils #artwork #arting #adventure #caper

Picture book reading - I'm a Parsnip

https://makertube.net/w/d57sRojoyxs6nKsvzvkgvc

Picture book reading - Pilchards

https://makertube.net/w/tdvTSjksgncUSynMDkuRUh

christmas robins wide

https://makertube.net/w/qrZ3nknZP4K1sm91B4oyHQ

More success for children’s author Jo Dabrowski

Before she even had kids, AWC graduate Jo Dabrowski loved buying and reading picture books and dreamed of one day being a published author herself. Today, those dreams are firmly a reality! Since completing Writing Picture Books at the Australian Writers' Centre, Jo has been on a…
https://www.writerscentre.com.au/blog/jo-dabrowski-childrens-author/

#AlumniStudentsuccessstories #creative #graduatesuccess #picturebook

Jon-Erik Lappano: Be Irrational in Your Persistence https://www.writersdigest.com/jon-erik-lappano-be-irrational-in-your-persistence #Writer'sDigestAuthorSpotlight #AuthorSpotlightSeries #WriteBetterFiction #AuthorSpotlights #AuthorSpotlight #picturebook #BeInspired #Children's #Interviews #Genre

Illustration for "Adventures with Supercar!" a picture book I wrote in my childhood. 1960s. #childhood #childhoodcreativity #creativity #pictures #picturebook #picturebooks #illustations #coloredpencil #coloredpencils #penciļsketch #pencilsketches #coloredpencildrawing #draw