Links to some interviews and articles

• Since Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith is a 2009 National Book Award Finalist, Young People's Literature, you can read about me on their site!
• The Rasco from RIF blog writes about my visit to the Reading is Fundamental offices.
• "From Rhyming Picture Books to Galapagos Blue-Footed Boobies: An Interview with Deborah Heiligman", from Penn & Ink, the Eastern PA SCBWI Chapter's newsletter.
  
• Cynsations interview by Cynthia Leitich Smith about Celebrate Passover with Matzah, Maror, and Memories.
  
• A more general conversation with Cynthia Leitich Smith.
  
• Holidays Around the World is mentioned in the article Stories reflect pride in Jewish identity, by Heidi R. Estrin on MyJewishLearning.com.

Watch this interview from ReadingRockets:

Links to a few of my publishers

• Henry Holt
  
• HarperCollins
  
• Marshall Cavendish
  
• National Geographic
  
• Scholastic

Links for Writers

• Author's Guild
  
• Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators
• StorySleuths Blog

Links for Teachers

• INK Think Tank: Nonfiction Authors in Your Classroom
• Educational Paperback Association
• TeachingBooks.net

Other Links

• My Blog
  
• I.N.K. blog - Interesting Nonfiction for Kids
  
• Reader's Circle - book club networking
  

A few of my INK Think Tank friends and I got together for a New York City dinner...here's the video:

Visit Some of My Friends' Web Sites!

In Charlotte's Web by E.B. White, Wilbur says about Charlotte:
"She was in a class by herself. It is not often that someone comes along
who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both."

I am lucky enough to have many Charlottes:

Laurie Anderson Pat Brisson Margery Cuyler Marfé Ferguson Delano Pamela Jane Sally Keehn Barbara Kerley Patty Lakin Joyce McDonald Margie Palatini Wendy Pfeffer Pam Swallow Kay Winters Elvira Woodruff Tom Yezerski

Pam Swallow, Kay Winters, Pat Brisson, me, and Wendy Pfeffer on our "Behind the Scenes: Writing Children's Books" panel at the New Jersey Educational Media Conference 2003. Photo taken by another panel member, Joyce McDonald.