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"Emmasaries" is the blog of best-selling children's book author, editor and arts educator Emma Walton Hamilton, and offers ideas, insights and experiences related to raising children with an appreciation for the joy of reading, as well as how to write for kids and support them in becoming better writers themselves.

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Emmasaries · 1M ago

Embracing My Inner Princess

The first thing I said when my husband and I learned we were expecting a daughter was, “OK, but we’re not doing the pink princess thing.” Famous last words. Hope was born seemingly hard-wired to be the girliest girl in the world – she wouldn’t even wear pants until 1st grade. Her passion extended

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Emmasaries · 1M ago

Announcing the Very Fairy Princess App!

I’m excited to announce that our new Very Fairy Princess app is now live! The Very Sparkly Wand feature invites young princes and princesses to choose from three colors and sounds in order to create their own wand and add a little sparkle to anything with just a flick of the iPhone or iPad. With [.

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Emmasaries · 1M ago

Anthropomorphism – More Than Humans in Fur Coats

We’ve been discussing anthropomorphism this week in my graduate children’s lit class. Anthropomorphism – or the giving of human characteristics to animals, plants, machines, natural phenomena or objects – can serve to broaden an audience base, especially with picture books. A book about a duck or a

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Emmasaries · 2M ago

Beginnings

What does it take to draw in today’s young reader and persuade them to keep reading? Last week, in the children’s lit class I’m teaching at Stony Brook Southampton, we looked closely at the beginnings of middle grade and YA novels. I made a list of important elements for my grad students… but I’d l

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Emmasaries · 2M ago

What Should Our App Be?

Today’s post is actually a question – well, more of a favor. We’re working with our wonderful publisher on developing an app for The Very Fairy Princess. We’ll start with a free one, then plan for other, more expanded versions down the line. I’m researching picture book apps to get a sense of what

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Emmasaries · 2M ago

And the Oscar Goes To… Children’s Lit!

Say what you will about the ceremony itself (I actually found it to be refreshingly tender and dignified, for the most part), Sunday night’s Academy Awards were a tribute to Oscar’s own medium – the history, customs, elders, and influence of cinema. From the retro popcorn girls in the aisles and t

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Emmasaries · 3M ago

Beach Writes – The Southampton Childrens Literature Conference

“If you’re dreaming of becoming the next J. K. Rowling, we’ve got the perfect place for you—the Southampton Children’s Literature Conference!” So said School Library Journal last year after Rocco Staino paid a visit to the Stony Brook Southampton campus to observe the Conference in action. As Direct

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Emmasaries · 3M ago

Red Flags

With all the new publishing options available in our digital world, how can we verify the quality of an agent, editor or publisher? Unfortunately, the publishing industry is no different than any other. There are plenty of individuals and companies that engage in unethical behavior and take advanta

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Emmasaries · 3M ago

A Lesson in Showing Versus Telling

Last week I started teaching the spring course in Childrens Literature for grad students in the MFA in Creative Writing and Literature at Stony Brook Southampton. We spent the first class discussing the many formats of children’s lit, and began our picture book study (we’ll move on to chapter books,

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Emmasaries · 4M ago

Shout-Outs, Giveaways and Reciprocity

One of the things I love best about being a member of the children’s lit industry is the spirit of community with which we support one another. Unlike many other businesses, almost everyone who writes, illustrates, edits, publishes, markets, sells or otherwise works with children’s books puts their

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