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Recommendations
To keep this real, I only recommend books I have read, writers whose work
and/or web sites I admire, and sites that I use or visit on a regular basis.






Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life (Terry Brooks)

Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie & Folklore in the Literature of Childhood (Jane Yolen)

Take Joy: A Book for Writers (Jane Yolen)

The Forest for the Trees: An Editor's Advice to Writers (Betsy Lerner)

Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life (Anne Lamott)

Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within (Natalie Goldberg)

Worlds of Childhood: The Art and Craft of Writing for Children (William Zinsser, editor)

Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew (Ursula K. Le Guin)

It's a Bunny-Eat-Bunny World: A Writer's Guide to Surviving and Thriving in Today's Competitive Children's Book Market (Olga Litowinsky)

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Stephen King)






Children's Writers and Illustrators Chat Board

Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators

Smartwriters.com

Write4Kids.com

Once Upon a Time (magazine for children's writers and illustrators)

KidsReads.com

Children's Literature

Children's Book Council

The Purple Crayon

Academy of American Poets

Preditors & Editors- watchdog site

Imaginary Lands

Storyline Online





Terry Brooks

Ellen Jackson

Diana Wynne Jones

Ursula K. Le Guin

Lois Lowry

David Lubar

Ken Nesbit

Tamora Pierce

Jack Prelutsky

J.K. Rowling

Shel Silverstein

Lemony Snicket

Jane Yolen


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