For Teachers:
- Lesson Plans for Dawn Chorus — Coming Soon!
For Beginning Birders— How You Can Help the Birds:
- 10 Things You Can Do for Birds, Audubon
- 10 Ways to Help Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology
- Six Ways to Support Wild Birds at Home, National Wildlife Foundation
For KidLit Creators, with a focus on Nonfiction:
- SCBWI The Society for Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. Joining SCBWI provides access to a wealth of knowledge and resources.
- Building Writerly Resources A series of my blog posts consolidating lessons learned over the years in the hopes of shortening your journey
- List of Publishers who accept unagented submissions. The amazing author Bitsy Kempner has been keeping this incredible list updated. Just a note to please don’t submit until your stories have been polished repeatedly after critiques by both peers and professionals.
- Mining for Heart. Finding the heart, the vital layer, the essential core of your story isn’t easy. Author Beth Anderson’s blog series features authors who have struggled with this, and how they have found it. The series can be a mentor text for all of us.
- Literary Rambles. Author Natalie Aquirre has a very long running series in her blog featuring interviews with agents—enabling you to get to know them better. Twice a month, she interviews agents, and each interviews comes with a query critique giveaway, chosen at random from commenters on the post.
- 5 Kinds of Nonfiction. Melissa Stewart is a science book author and expert on nonfiction for kids. Her insights into the types of nonfiction and how to use them are invaluable.
- Awards for Children’s Nonfiction and STEAM A spreadsheet of awards for NF KidLit, please let me know of any errors or additions.
- Reimagining Your Nonfiction Picture Book In the work to find the text structure that best supports your story, author Kirsten W. Larson’s guide to revising nonfiction is essential.
