Spot the Difference: Wombats Are Pretty Weird
Guest Blog Post by Abi Cushman When I set out to write Wombats Are Pretty Weird in 2018, I knew I wanted the book’s primary focus to be...
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Jul 152 min read
Spot the Difference: Mushroom Rain
Guest Blog Post by Laura Zimmermann Mushroom Rain began with a story that had nothing to do with rain and everything to do with Beatrix...
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Jul 85 min read
Spot the Difference: Beautiful Noise--The Music of John Cage
Guest Blog Post by Lisa Rogers I was a daily news reporter for 10 years before becoming an elementary school librarian, so I thought I...
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Jul 14 min read
Spot the Difference: Evelyn the Adventurous Entomologist
Guest blog post by Christine Evans To tell the truth, I didn’t know what I was doing when I started writing my picture book biography,...
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Jun 253 min read
Spot the Difference: Look
Guest blog post by Gabi Snyder Gabi Snyder is the author of LOOK, illustrated by Samantha Cotterill and published by Simon &...
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May 134 min read
Spot the Difference: I Want My Book Back
Guest blog post by Viviane Elbee Viviane Elbee is the author of I WANT MY BOOK BACK published by Little Bee Books in 2022. You can order...
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May 63 min read
Spot the Difference: This Book Is Definitely Not Cursed
Guest Blog Post by Megan Woodward You can preorder THIS BOOK IS DEFINITELY NOT CURSED here. A lot of what I changed from earlier drafts...
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Apr 299 min read
Spot the Difference: The Quiet Forest
Guest post by Charlotte Offsay You can order THE QUIET FOREST here. Each of my books has had its own unique journey from draft to...
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Apr 224 min read
Spot the Difference: Bravo, Avocado!
In today's post we learn about the evolution of Chana Stiefel's picture book Bravo, Avocado. You can order BRAVO, AVOCADO! here. Chana...
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Apr 156 min read
Spot the Difference with Vivian Kirkfield
Guest blog post by Vivian Kirkfield You can order Vivian's books here. No matter the genre, all successful books need these three...
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Apr 83 min read
Spot the Difference: The William Hoy Story, How a Deaf Baseball Player Changed the Game
Guest blog post by Nancy Churnin You can order THE WILLIAM HOY STORY here. This is from my 2013 draft of my first book, The William Hoy...
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Apr 14 min read
Spot the Difference: Wood, Wire, Wings: Emma Lilian Todd Invents an Airplane
Guest post by Kirsten W. Larson You can order WOOD, WRE, WINGS here. Evolution of an Opening: Tracing the Revisions of Wood, Wire, Wings:...
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Mar 313 min read
The "Spot the Difference" Blog Series: An Introduction
by Lea C. Maryanow (NO AI TRAINING: Any use of this blog post to “train” generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to generate...
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