In January at Vermont College of Fine Arts, I helped facilitate a discussion on non-fiction books including Charles and Emma and Claudette Colvin, which got me thinking about stories that entertain as well as inform. As a novelist who’s also written her share of non-fiction, I’ve long been interested in the relationship between fact and fiction for writers.
How do you best tell a story that opens up new worlds of science or industry to young readers? This week three authors with new releases join us for in depth conversations about their own relationship between fiction and non-fiction, and the literary process.
Vicki Wittenstein, author of the non-fiction book on astronomy, Planet Hunter, Jacqueline Houtman, science writer and author of the new novel The Reinvention of Edison Thomas, and author and writing teacher Leda Schubert, whose picture book about making wool Feeding the Sheep is being released by Farrar Straus Giroux.
First, congratulations Leda!
Leda Schubert is author of several books for children including Ballet of the Elephants (Roaring Brook, 2006) and Here Comes Darrell (Houghton, 2005) and teaches at Vermont College of Fine Arts where she lends a warm and wise presence, and can always be counted on to liven things up with a little humor.
She’s been a librarian, teacher and school library consultant for the Vermont Department of Education and has served on the Caldecott Committee, the Arbuthnot Committee, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Committee, among others. Mor
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