Other sites to explore

My favorite bookstore, the Santa Monica Traditional Folk Music Club, friend authors, and other eclectic sites to explore.

Want to write and/or illustrate children's books? Check out the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators!

Like Rabbits? Visit the Bunny Museum! This is an interesting museum which includes in its collection copies of both the hardcover and soft cover book To Rabbittown, signed by the illustrator, Robin Spowart, and me.

Like water gardens?  Lilypons awards its Lily Ponds For Youth Grants to five qualifying schools throughout the nation.
 
AUTHORS

Here are a few to start your exploration:

The Children's Authors Network! (CAN!) is an organization of twelve children's authors devoted to promoting the literacy of children and inspiring their enjoyment of books.  CAN! includes my friends Bruce Balan, Jeri Chase Ferris, Evelyn Gallardo, Joan Bransfield Graham, Robin Rector Krupp, Julie Mammano, Celeste Davidson Mannis, Michelle Markel, Alexis O’Neill, Joan Prestine, Janet Wong, and...uh, me.

Bruce Balan--my wonderful, wonderful friend and sailor -- author of the popular CYBER.KDZ series, BUOY HOME AT SEA, THE CHERRY MIGRATION, and many others.

John Ritter—A friend and a terrific young adult author. His novels center on baseball...and so much more.

Pam Munoz Ryan—An amazing writer with a big heart.  The author of ESPERANZA RISING, RIDING FREEDOM and many more novels and picture books.

Barney Saltzberg—A talented picture book writer-and-illustrator and marvelous singer/songwriter!  Want to learn to draw? Wanna have fun?  Check out Barney's site!

BOOKSTORES

Here are Southern California’s  fantastic independent childrens' bookstores.

Booksense...this is the independent bookstores' answer to Amazon.

My out-of-print books are available used, through abebooks.com.

To Rabbittown is also available as an ebook!

www.abfc.com , a great site to locate independent children's bookstores across the country.
 

OTHER RESOURCES

Check out a children's book editor's wonderful site--gives lots information about the publishing industry and answers to questions all aspiring writers need to know.

How about a journalist who has a fabulous archive of authors she has interviewed?

Check out the Children's Book Council.

USA Writes 4 Kids: link to more than 150 children's authors and playwrights.

Just For Kids Who Love Books: lively site of a Canadian librarian with author websites, book reviews by kids, stories by young authors and more.

Los Angeles Public Library - Click on Kid's Path, then Recommended Reading. From there, try clicking either on Age and Grade Level lists or Genre and Themed lists. These are annotated to help kids and parents select the right books.

Poets Online - Poetry, poetry and more poetry!  Every two weeks a new writing prompt, lots of wonderful links, more information than any of us need!

Learn a new word each day, and receive a daily quote as well (for free!) with:
A-Word-A-Day
 
FOLK MUSIC LINKS

For folk music links, see the Santa Monica Traditional Folk Music Club