Heidi Zhang

Heidi Zhang is a Chinese American working mom based in Los Angeles, also known as the “City of Flowers and Sunshine” or “The Big Orange”. With a career rooted in finance, she never imagined venturing into the world of children’s literature—until one night, when her young daughter, Sophie, posed a simple yet profound question: “How do you become a princess?” This moment sparked inspiration for the Are YOU Series, which Heidi hopes will encourage children to be virtuous global citizens who can appreciate diversity through our shared humanity and improve the community and environment around them.

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Laura Wadsworth Carter

Laura W. Carter is a native of Oxford, Alabama. After earning a Bachelor of History in 2008 and a Master of Education in 2009 from the University of Montevallo, she began her career as a teacher. She has taught history at the high school level since 2013 and is also certified to teach English and language arts. The Elect and Restoration were her first published books, and they were released from a small press beginning in 2016. Since then, she has expanded her writing into all realms of kidlit with a particular fondness toward writing picture books that her son would enjoy. Laura’s adult life has been and continues to be dedicated to working with youth and encouraging them to love stories, history, and learning. You can follow her on Twitte
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Egor Klopenko

Books for children require absolute sincerity and purity. To create something real, you must strip away all that is superfluous, all that is artificial, all that is so common in adult prose. What remains must be only goodness, beauty, joy, light, and love—only the most valuable and important things, only the things you would want to give your children. But this is how books for adults should be written, too…And perhaps, this is just how we should live as well…

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I am a children's book author and editor who has worked in the children's book field for over twenty years. My books include picture book Sled Dog Dachshund (illustrated by An Phan), and the middle grade biography Fred Korematsu Speaks Up (co-written with Stan Yogi, illustrated by Yutaka Houlette). This is the first in the Fighting for Justice series. The second book, Biddy Mason Speaks Up, is out in February 2019.

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Cheryl Olsten

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Extremely popular works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet, in the United States in his lifetime, include The Song of Hiawatha in 1855 and a translation from 1865 to 1867 of Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow educated. His originally wrote the "Paul Revere's Ride" and "Evangeline." From New England, he first completed work of the fireside.

Bowdoin College graduated Longefellow, who served as a professor, afterward studied in Europe, and later moved at Harvard. After a miscarriage, Mary Potter Longfellow, his first wife, died in 1835. He first collected Voices of the Night (1839) and Ballads and Other Poems (1841).

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Leo Timmers

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DJ Corchin

DJ Corchin is an author and/or illustrator of over 24 children's books. A Thousand NO’s illustrated by Dan Dougherty launched to wonderful reviews, became a Barnes & Noble Bestseller, and won the Eric Hoffer Award for Best Children’s Book. Additional award-winning titles include Do You Speak Fish?, The I Feel... Children’s Series, The Band Nerds Book Series, and If You Find A Unicorn, It Is Not Yours To Keep.

He visits groups and schools all over the country discussing his stories and how people can find a path through their own creative universe.

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Tim Rayborn

Tim Rayborn is a historian, medievalist, and musician, with an MA and PhD from the University of Leeds in England. He is a writer on a variety of topics in history and the arts, from the academic to the amusing to the appalling. He has written nearly 50 books to date.

A professional musician with a specialty in medieval repertoire, he plays dozens of musical instruments, has appeared on more than 40 recordings, and has performed in the US, Canada, Europe, and Australia.

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Emily Rosen

Emily Rosen is a mom, a freelance creative director and copywriter, and a children’s book author. She has built her career working for top advertising agencies and brands and strives to use her creativity for good––especially to empower women, mothers, and kids. Inspired by her son Max’s time in the NICU, she wrote her first children’s book to help families like hers.

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Shana Keller is passionate about history. She began her studies of African American history at the University of Miami in Florida and has delved deep into our nation’s diverse past ever since. She is the author of several award-winning picture books including Do You Know Them? Families Lost and Found After the Civil War, a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection; Ticktock Banneker’s Clock, Best STEM book, Children’s Book Council; and Bread for Words: A Frederick Douglass Story, an Irma Black Award Honor. Other titles include Fly, Firefly!; The Peach Pit Parade: A World War I Story; The Sole Man: Jan Matzeliger’s Lasting Invention, a EUREKA! Nonfiction Children’s Book Award Honor; and soon to be released, CeeCee: Underground Railroad Ci
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Laura Atkins

I am a children's book author and editor who has worked in the children's book field for over twenty years. My books include picture book Sled Dog Dachshund (illustrated by An Phan), and the middle grade biography Fred Korematsu Speaks Up (co-written with Stan Yogi, illustrated by Yutaka Houlette). This is the first in the Fighting for Justice series. The second book, Biddy Mason Speaks Up, is out in February 2019.

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As a writer, I’ve realized
That if I’m reaching out through my books,
It should be to children.
Only with them does it make sense to speak sincerely
And of true things,
For they themselves are always sincere
And true.
And when I do write for adults,
I’m speaking only to the childlike spark sti
Buy books on Amazon
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Kathy Simmers always wanted to live on a farm with horses. When she was twelve years old, she started taking riding lessons. At nineteen she bought her first horse. It seemed like she was well on her way, but life doesn’t always go in a straight line. Though Kathy faced many obstacles she never gave up on her dream. Today Kathy & her husband live on a farm in North Carolina with horses, llamas, a small herd of goats, cats, a dog, and some chickens.
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Maria Spithaki (Sociologist - Pedagogue - Writer)

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I like discovering heroes in the fiction land and giving them life on paper.
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