Here is monthly good news reported by Wisconsin’s SCBWI members:
Miranda Paul sold her fourth picture book, 10 Little Ninjas, to Knopf Children’s at Random House. A Publisher’s Weekly item says, “Karen Greenberg and Melanie Cecka at Knopf have acquired Miranda Paul’s 10 Little Ninjas, a ‘sensei-tional’ picture book twist on a childhood rhyme, in which a group of not-so-sleepy ninja toddlers devise ways to sneak, creep, and tumble their way out of going to bed. It’s planned for spring 2016; Karen Grencik at Red Fox Literary brokered the deal for world rights.”
Miranda says she owes “a lot to one of my SCBWI critique partners for her willingness to help me as I worked through umpteen drafts, and to my SCBWI conference faculty critiquer for the encouragement to go ahead and submit it to my agent.”
Andrea Skyberg and her husband, Michael Greer, recently took home national awards for two of their books. The Eyes of India by Michael was awarded a Mom’s Choice Award for Juvenile Fiction, and CommuniTree by Andrea and the Milwaukee Parkside School for the Arts was honored with a Finalist Award from Next Generation Indie Books.
CommuniTree was created in collaboration with 686 students. A video at www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=mozsjXmR77w describes how the book was made.
Georgia Beaverson the first book in a project she’s working on for Wisconsin Media Lab, a bio of Les Paul, is available for free download, along with free resources and a fun film. This series is meant for classroom use by Wisconsin teachers. Georgia is editing the books this year. Here’s the link. http://wimedialab.org/biographies/paul.html
Congratulations to Miranda, Andrea, Michael and Georgia!
See other news about Wisconsin writers at www.wiswriters.org.