Candlewick Press Presents

• The Jewish News of Northern California features Maggie and The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea.
• Listen to Maggie’s Let’s Not Panic podcast about her travels across South America.
• Maggie shares more of her travels in this Let’s Not Panic video.
• Maggie talks about the process of writing and publishing a children’s book in this blog post: So You Want to Write a Kids’ Book? Oh No.

Maggie Tokuda-Hall, author of Also an Octopus; The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea; and Love in the Library talks to Candlewick Press about the many hats she has worn in the field of children’s literature, her childhood and teen years, and her travels to South America.

Episode Show Notes:

• Chitra talks about the first storytelling prize she received on the Picture Book Den blog.
• Chitra talks about reading and Indian culture on her YouTube channel.
• Chitra shares her publishing experience on the My Book Corner blog.
• Chitra discusses her writing process on The Reading Realm blog.
• Chitra talks about her favorite writing locations on The Parrot Street blog.

Chitra shares the Seven Habits of a Highly Distracted Writer on the Awfully Big Blog Adventure.

Chitra Soundar, author of Pattan’s Pumpkin; Mangoes, Mischief, and Tales of Friendship; and Sona Sharma, Very Best Big Sister? talks to Candlewick Press about her deep research into pumpkins, the art of cooking up good stories (and excuses), and her favorite words to spell!

• Chris’s interview with Art + Design Magazine, where he talks about wanting to be an archaeologist or paleontologist.
• Chris’s animation project with the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) for the video A Message from Antarctica.

Chris Haughton, author-illustrator of Little Owl Lost, Shh! We Have a Plan, Goodnight Everyone, and more, talks to Candlewick Press about his childhood in Ireland, his love of dinosaurs, and the bad little monkeys in his newest picture book, Maybe…

• Leslie talks more about her favorite books from childhood on the ParentNormal podcast, Breaking Down Parenting.
• Leslie discusses her baby board book series.
• In this Five Questions (Plus One!) video, Leslie talks about Mad Magazine’s influence on her work.
• Leslie draws Lily and Darby from The Rizzlerunk Club and talks about reading Stephen King in middle school.
• Leslie talks to the Hope Is the Word blog about her college experience.

Leslie talks to the Two Writing Teachers blog about writing and getting published.

Leslie Patricelli, author-illustrator of board books like Yummy Yucky and Huggy Kissy and middle-grade fiction like The Rizzlerunk Club: Best Buds Under Frogs, talks to Candlewick Press about finding humor in scary situations, her artwork, music, and the many places her famous baby character has traveled!

• Atinuke’s blog.
• Atinuke talks to the Candid Cocoa blog.
• A review of Atinuke’s storytelling from the Herts and Essex Observer.

Photo by Paul Musso

Atinuke, author of Baby Goes to Market; Too Small Tola; Africa, Amazing Africa: Country by Country; the Anna Hibiscus series; and more talks to Candlewick Press about her Nigerian roots and the art of oral and written storytelling!