Author page: Katie Davis

        Five authors and five illustrators have been selected from 57 candidates submitted by 32 national sections of IBBY for the 2012 Hans Christian Andersen Award. The award, considered the most prestigious in international children’s literature, is…

  Making the Web Work for You was AMAZING! Great attendees, great faculty, and better than any of us? The chefs! I would've taken pictures of the food, but it was gone by the time I remembered to. I got one…

Yesterday I covered what I did to make the trailer below for How to Promote Your Children's Book: Tips, Tricks, and Secrets to Create a Bestseller . Today I'll go over how I did it. Wrote script, and timed/edited it by…

I'm at the Highlights Foundation Founders Workshop and who is here but Jules Danielson, of Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast, and who happens to know American Sign Language? Jules does!     Happy World Read Aloud Day!

From LitWorld: Your Top 7 Actions for an Incredible WRAD! 1. Host a Book Swap Bash with your friends and bring short pieces to read that make people laugh. 2. Gather a group of children, donate some books and stay awhile to read…

I'm at the Highlights Foundation Founders Workshop this week as faculty in their Making the Web Work for You week. One of the things I'm teaching is all about book trailers. Book trailers need as much editorial viciousness as manuscripts.…

I love a roadside bar-b-q place that evokes Charlotte's Web. Need I say more?!