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Though he had aspirations to play professional baseball, David Shannon made his mark—literally—in children’s picture books. “I’ve always liked to draw and it always seemed like that’s what I [...]

“I became a writer because I was, and still am, a reader,” says Linda Sue Park, an award-winning author and Newbery Medalist for A Single Shard (Clarian Books, 2001). As a young child, Park began [...]