new storytelling by Howard M. Singer
Debut children's picture book author with nonfiction and fiction titles ready for review.
Debut children's picture book author with nonfiction and fiction titles ready for review.
Once upon a time many years ago, I read picture books to my brother's three children. Today, I conduct story time with their children. I graduated from the University of South Florida where I worked on the student newspaper and campus radio station: My story on a central Florida crop freeze aired on NPR's All Things Considered. I have written news for radio, print and television. I was the transportation reporter for The Washington Times and two freelance articles appeared in The Washington Post. I created and edited client newsletters for Macy's and JCPenney. As a volunteer, I built a PR platform for a Wash., DC nonprofit without a budget, organized a collegiate career fair for the American Marketing Association and brought residents to a Northern Virginia hospital on Christmas Day to sing carols and hand out greeting cards to patients. When not reading or writing, I enjoy cycling and tennis, a devoted Chicago Cubs and Miami Dolphins fan and think jazz and classical music deserve more recognition. I am a member of the SCBWI and work with Jumpstart's Read for the Record program. I currently have several picture book titles completed (both fiction and nonfiction/unillustrated) and seeking representation or publishers.
"A book is a gift you can open again and again." - Anonymous
"To learn to read is to light a fire - every syllable that is spelled is a spark." -Victor Hugo
"Reading is important because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything."
-Tomie dePaola
"People who report as little as a half-hour a day of book reading had a significant survival advantage over those who did not read." -Becca R. Levy, Professor of Epidemiology, Yale
"Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are." -Mason Cooley
"To me, the perfect picture book is a spontaneous creation, inspired by an invisible and mysterious muse not to be found in the marketplace." -Kate Banks
"The scariest moment is always just before you start. After that, things can only get better." -Stephen King
"I don't think about what children want. You get an idea and you just do it." -Raymond Briggs, as told to the BBC, 2017
"The person who doesn't read has no advantage over the person who can't." -Mark Twain
"Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again." -Louisa May Alcott
"I truly believe that learning the craft of fiction writing is vital and that you can't do that in classes." -Barbara Taylor Bradford
"Don't refuse a child if he asks you to tell the same story over and over and over again." -Janusz Korczak
"Writing for young readers connects me professionally to a part of myself that I didn't know how to let out until I was 60." -Jules Feiffer
"I published my first picture book for children when I was 62-a bit late to the reading circle...But William Steig didn't publish his first picture book until he was 61 and Laura Wilder was 65 when Little House in the Big Woods came out in 1932." -Bruce Handy
"The decisive encounter between children and books takes place in the classroom. If it happens in a creative situation, where it is life that counts and not exercises, a taste for reading can arise, a pleasure with which one is not born, because it is not an instinct." -Gianni Rodari
Number of items in the Library of Congress: 173 million
The year William Caxton published "The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye," the first book printed in English: 1473
John Steinbeck's dog ate the first draft of "Of Mice and Men."
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