BOOKS TO HELP YOU GET STARTED OR KEEP GOING
by Cynthia Cotten & Kitty Griffin
Books about Children’s Books and Writers
Joan Aiken: The Way to Write for Children
Elaine Marie Alphin: Creating Characters Kids Will Love
Marion Dane Bauer: What’s Your Story?
Dorothea Brande: Becoming A Writer
James Cross Giblin: Writing Books for Young People
Ann Hood: Creating Character Emotions
Jean Karl: How to Write and Sell Children’s Picture Books
Ralph Keyes: The Courage to Write
Stephen King: On Writing
Anne Lamott: Bird by Bird
Betsy Lerner: The Forest for the Trees
George Ella Lyon: where I’m from (poetry)
Strunk and White: The Elements of Style
Dwight Swain: Techniques of the Selling Writer
Lee Wyndham: Writing for Children and Teenagers
Jane Yolen: Guide to Writing for Children
Books about Children’s Books and Writers
Sarah Ellis: From Reader to Writer
Virginia Haviland, ed.: The Openhearted Audience: Ten Authors Talk about Writing for Children
Betsy Hearne and Marilyn Kaye: Celebrating Children’s Books
Jean Karl: From Childhood to Childhood
Valerie Lewis and Walter Mayes: Valerie and Walter’s Best Books for Children: A Lively and Opinionated Guide
Leonard Marcus: Author Talk; A Caldecott Celebration; Dear Genius
Anita Silvey: Children’s Books and Their Creators
William Zinsser: Worlds of Childhood
Anne Lamott: Bird by Bird
Susan Cooper: Dreams and Wishes
Madeleine L’Engle: Walking on Water; Circle of Quiet
Katherine Paterson: Gates of Excellence; The Spying Heart
Brenda Ueland: If You Want to Write
Eudora Welty: One Writer’s Beginnings
