Hip Hip Hooray! A COVER REVEAL!!!
And it’s a book about a library – my home away from home when I was a kid!
And it’s written by one of my dear friends and panel mates from the 2019 NCTE – you know – when we were still traveling here and there, attending book festivals and conferences.
Libraries…one of the last great free resources – open to all.
And I give you:
SO YOU WANT TO BUILD A LIBRARY
WELCOME TO ALL! Whether you have participated in previous years or you are just dipping your toes in for the first time – whether you are a pre-published author or you have multiple books out there already – I am so very glad you are here!
The #50PreciousWords 2021 International Writing Contest is OVER and the 51 finalists will be announced March 31. If you have trouble accessing the entries, you are not alone. We had so many comments (over 10,000), I think we broke WordPress, but the tech gurus are at work trying to resolve the issue. Thank you so much for your patience.
Congratulations to all who participated! We had a record 763 entries! The linky list is complete. You can find your story or a particular story by scrolling down and clicking on the link. PLEASE NOTE: THE LINKY LIST IS NOT WORKING RIGHT NOW. But you can read many of the entries by scrolling through.
I hope you will visit many of the stories.- getting positive comments is a great validation for writers – and reading other stories is a wonderful learning tool for all of us!
I’ll be reading all of these amazing stories…and so will my assistant judges. There are going to be some very difficult decisions to make…so many of the stories are top-notch – several feel like they should be on shelves already! But right now, please celebrate your courage and hard work! YOU DID IT! And, if you didn’t participate this year with a story, I hope you will next year! Because we all have a story to tell – and I’d love to read your precious words.
Continue readingHello dear friends. We are going to have to stop meeting like this! And we’ll also have to tell the lovely and talented Julie Abery to stop writing such amazing board book stories!
Seriously though, I am over the moon excited for Julie’s newest additions to the Little Animal Friends board book series from Amicus Publishing. As most of you know, Julie’s first book in the series, Little Tiger, was the first place winner in the very first #50PreciousWords Contest back in 2016. And now there are SIX of these beautiful board books that are delighting children all over the world that are launching tomorrow.
VIVIAN KIRKFIELD - Writer for Children 