Gribble’s Scribbles

Remember when we used to give our fathers ties for presents because we didn’t know anything else about them? I used to dread growing…

A Mighty Girl’s book section features over 1,500 girl-empowering books starring stellar Mighty Girl characters. With over 200 book categories to explore, the best…

Many thanks to Children’s Librarian Allie Bruce for sharing her 2014 Bank Street summer reading lists. They include her tips for making summer… read…

On Friday, May 9, the BAFTA New York Children’s Committee hosted the second in its Networking Lunch Series. Feeling more… read more here!

Backstory can be essential to understanding a character and his/her journey. It can deepen conflict, reveal motivation and elicit sympathy for a hero or…

In 1965, Nancy Larrick wrote an article for the Saturday Review entitled “the All-White World of Children’s Books.” Though Larrick was certainly not the…

Now that I’ve gone through several social media outlets, I thought I would post about how to gather all your information and make them…

You’ve always wanted to do it, and now you finally have. It’s an exhilarating, wonderful feeling, and you have every reason to feel proud….

I will cover what I have learned through thirteen years of school presentations, but please keep in mind, this is only what worked best for…

The Children’s Book Academy is proud and excited to offer merit scholarships for writers and illustrators of color, identifying as LBGQTI, or having a disability, who…