Member News

The Houston chapter of SCBWI includes an incredibly talented group of authors and illustrators! Though it is nearly impossible to keep up with our busy members, this page is our attempt to share the new books, signings, and short publications, by local children's authors and illustrators. Please support your local writers and artists by reading their work and attending their book signings! (For information on inviting them to speak, please see our Speakers page.)

Members please send news about book releases (not sales), award announcements/book signings (local only!), and short publications (on publication) to Webmaster Marianne Dyson for posting on this page. All work must be for children. (Webmaster will post notices as soon as practical after receipt, but please allow at least 3 weeks in case of travel.)


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BOOK SIGNINGS/AWARD ANNOUNCEMENTS!

Jo Harper's DVD of Finding Daddy: A Story of the Great Depression (Nutmeg Media) was selected by the American Library Association as a 2008 Notable Children's Video. This 17-minute video is for ages 5-10.

Bruce Foster's book with Chuck Fischer, Christmas Around the World, was selected by John Searles of Cosmopolitan magazine as a recommended gift book for 2007.

Dotti Enderle and Vicki Sansum's book, Grandpa for Sale won first place in the picture book division of the Teddy Children's Awards. See www.writersleague.org for more information.

Bruce Foster's book, Halloween at the Zoo won a Moonbeam award for Best Pop Up Book of the Year. Check www.moonbeamawards.com for more information.

Ellen Leventhal, Ellen Rothberg, and Bill Megenhardt's book Don't Eat the Bluebonnets is a MoonBeam award finalist and being produced as a play by the Katy Visual & Performing Arts Center.

Kim Morris's "Beck Beyond the Sea" (RH/Disney) was a New York Times Book Review Children's Paperback Books best seller in September, 2007. Wow!


SHORT PUBLICATIONS!

January 2008 issue of Highlights magazine includes (on page 8) “Flash, Splash, Training a Deaf Polar Bear," by Mary Ann Hellinghausen. This is Mary Ann's first publication for children. Congratulations, Mary Ann!

December 2007 issue of Byline magazine ByLine Magazine details JoAn Martin's bio, writing, hobbies, and book reviewing.

December 2007 issue of Highlights magazine includes Dede Fox Ducharme's "Gallant Kids" column about child literacy advocate Adora Svitak.

December 2007 issue of Highlights also includes two puzzles (pages 8 and 10) by Doris Fisher.

Nov/Dec 2007 issue of Yes magazine published "In Devil's garden, ants rule," by Ana Maria Rodriquez.

Ana Maria also has two articles, "Fatal Frogs," and "Spying on Whales," in the Nov/Dec issue of KNOW magazine.

July/August 2007 issue of Learning through History Magazine magazine included "Riches and Rights: Forgin America's Steel" and "The Hunt for Black Gold" by Deborah Bryson.

2007, 4Frontiers Corporation's website crazy4mars short story, "Martian Mice," by Marianne Dyson.

NEW BOOKS BY SCBWI-HOUSTON MEMBERS!

   December 2007, How Many Kisses Do You Want Tonight? by Varsha Bajaj, illustrated by Ivan Bates, (Little Brown & Co.,) will be available in board book format on December 19, 2007. F Board book, 26 pages.


   August 2007, Fun Facts About Turtles! by Carmen Bredeson (Enslow). NF PB, 32 pages. This is the latest in a series on animals.


   June 2007, Space and Astronomy: Decade by Decade by Marianne Dyson (Facts On File). YA-Adult NF reference, 284 pages.


   May 2007, Rhyme Time by Wayne Edwards (FamilyPoet.com). Poetry, 100 pages.


   April 2007, A Piece of the Sky illustrated by Layne Johnson, written by David Patneaude (Albert Whitman & Co.). Ages 9-12, 194 pgs.


   March 2007, Remembering Grandpa illustrated by Layne Johnson, written by Uma Krishnaswami (Boyds Mills Press). PB, 32 pages.


   March 2007, Cowpie Corgi by Randi Yocum (Grace Enterprise). PB, 32 pages.


   January 2007, A Day in the Life of the Brain by Ana Marie Rodriguez (Chelsea House). YA NF, 128 pages.


   November 2006, Teresa's Journey by Jo Harper (Texas Tech University). YA NF, 162 pages.


   Fall 2006, Buffalo Soldier by Sherry Garland (Pelican Publishing), illustrated by Ronald Himlet. F, 32 pages.





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Page Last Updated: 1-20-08