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Welcome back to the 2011 Sydney Taylor Book Award Blog Tour! We’ve got three more amazing interviews for you today.
Kristina Swarner is the illustrator of two books recognized in the Younger Readers Category this year! She illustrated Gathering Sparks by Howard Schwartz (Sydney Taylor Book Award Winner) as well as Modeh Ani by Sarah Gershman (Sydney Taylor Honor Book).
Read an interview with Kristina at The SCBWI Children’s Market Blog with blogger Alice Pope.
Here’s a teaser:
Alice: Your style is so soft and beautiful–it has an ethereal quality. Will you tell us about your technique?
Kristina: I begin with a black and white linoleum print that helps me get the positive and negative shapes and the underlying texture. Then I go over it with watercolor and colored pencil. I try to leave the white of the paper where I can, so things like stars really glow.
Life, After is a 2011 Sydney Taylor Honor Book in the Teen Readers Category.
Read an interview with author Sarah Darer Littman at Into the Wardrobe with blogger Tarie.
Here’s a teaser:
Tarie: What does winning a Sydney Taylor Honor Award for Life, After mean to you?
Sarah: I can’t tell you how incredibly honored I feel to be twice honored by the AJL. When my first book, Confessions of a Closet Catholic won the Sydney Taylor Award for Older Readers in 2006, I was new on the scene and there was a part of me that thought maybe it was a fluke, especially since I followed up my win with a terrible case of second book blues (probably not helped by the fact that I was going through a very lengthy and painful divorce at the time). This time, it is perhaps even more meaningful because I feel like, “Wow, maybe they didn’t make a horrible mistake that first time after all!”
Hush is a 2011 Sydney Taylor Honor Book in the Teen Readers Category.
Read an interview with author Eishes Chayil at Frume Sarah’s World with blogger Frume Sarah.
Here’s a teaser:
Frume:As our synagogue educator is fond of asking, what is your goal? What do you hope that this book will do for others?
Eishes:It was the only way to have a voice heard that would not be heard otherwise. It was witnessing the agony and devastating trauma that abuse brings on its victims and realizing that I was lucky (or cursed) enough to be a writer, and can tell the story they can not.
Tune in tomorrow for the final day of our blog tour! We’ll feature an interview with Morris Gleitzman (Once) at The Fourth M