Emma Otheguy

1 month ago | hbook.com | Cathryn M. Mercier |Nancy Upper |Emma Otheguy |Betsy Groban

Metafiction calls attention to how narrative works within the narrative work. Crockett Johnson provides an early example. In Harold and the Purple Crayon (1955), the title characters collaborate to show off the elements of story and of picture book creation. Harold takes center stage as the primary character whose journey to walk in the moonlight begins once he takes the crayon in hand.

2 months ago | hbook.com | Nancy Upper |Emma Otheguy |Betsy Groban |Karida Brown

Special Issue: Perception and RealityOriginal cover art by Edel Rodriguez. Cathryn M. Mercier on the “playground” of metafiction in picture books. A Publisher’s Perspective: Charlesbridge editor Karen Boss reflects on the “two-brained intersection” between creativity and commerce.

2 months ago | hbook.com | Shifa Safadi |Emma Otheguy |Betsy Groban |Karida Brown

My name is Shifa,spelled S-h-i-f-a,for most of my life pronounced shee-fa,sometimes said Shiff-a,but really in Arabic it’s she-faa’ with an emphasisat the endlike a silent t...

Mar 17, 2025 | hbook.com | Emma Otheguy |Betsy Groban |Karida Brown |Charly Palmer

I first met Cuban-born translator Emily Carrero Mustelier through poet and translator Alexis Romay. I was working on my middle-grade novel Sofía Acosta Makes a Scene, a book about a girl whose family danced with the Ballet Nacional de Cuba. Alexis read a draft of the book and immediately put me in touch with Emily, who had studied at the Escuela Nacional de Ballet in Cuba as a child.

Nov 30, 2023 | schoollibraryjournal.com | Kara Yorio |Emma Otheguy

Colorado Conservatives Call for Law Enforcement Action to Ban Books | 9News Republican leaders are calling for a prosecutor to enforce obscenity laws to remove hundreds of books from schools in the Colorado Springs area.