MOWMT Day #21: Lynne Marie Mines French Mentor Texts
For the Love of France: An Exercise in Mentor Text Persistence by Lynne Marie As a child, I had grown up reading many books that shared French culture from our family bookshelf. For starters, there was the original 1950s version of Walt Disney's Cinderella, which has been reimagined and reissued in 2015 with story by Cynthia Rylant, and art by Mary Blair. This laid the foundation for not only my love of France and it's unique flair, but my passion for telling and/or fracturi
MOWMT Day #14: Lynne Marie Celebrates
It's no secret that I love, love, love holiday celebrations. Along with Rate Your Story Judge / Author Heather Macht, I am the Celebration Co-Connoisseur and Co-Host over at www.seasonsofkidlit.com! We feature several bookish blog blasts during the year, including a month of Trick-or-Treating, a week-long Thanks and Giving event, a two-week long Spread Joy event, a five-day long Valentine's Day event, and many pop-up events during the year, like this Groundhog Day with Jess T
March On With Mentor Texts: Registration Open!
As many of you know already, reading and studying Mentor Texts can play an important role in our journeys from aspiring writer to published children's book author. In fact, it's one of the most important things that I credit for my own success which includes Hedgehog Goes to Kindergarten, Hedgehog's 100th Day of School, The Star in the Christmas Play, Moldilocks and the Three Scares, Let's Eat! Mealtime Around the World, The Three Little Pigs and the Rocket Project and relate
Celebrating Seasons, Chapter Books and More with Heather Macht
I’m throwing confetti in the air to celebrate fellow #SeasonsOfKidLit Co-host (and creator) Heather Macht and her latest releases! One of the many things we share, besides our love for holidays, is a love for monsters, so you can imagine I was howling at the moon over her chapter book series entitled, Woodlot Monster Mysteries! Mark your calendars as Heather will be our special Guest at our January 29, 2023 Mentor Text Talk and she will be reading a chapter of one of her book
It's Not Too Late to Join Our Halloween Party
When Children's Author Heather Macht decided to share her love of celebrations with parents, book fanatics, authors, writers, teachers and librarians and readers of all sorts while also sharing children's book love, #SeasonsOfKidLit was born! She then teamed up with fellow Author / Celebration Connoisseur, Children's Author Lynne Marie as co-host and marketer, to spread the love far and wide. Together, Heather and Lynne Marie will be co-hosting themed holiday events which wil
Revving up for Rate Your Story 2023
Rate Your Story is a Ratings and Feedback Service originally founded by Miranda Paul. After several years and many books later, she passed the torch to Sophia Gholz. After about 5 years and many books later, Sophia passed the torch to me! Anyone who knows me knows how much I love critiquing and mentoring. Through my other business, ThePictureBookMechanic.com, I help people diagnosis picture book problems and fix their stories that "won't go." So tinkering with stories is my h
