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Favorite books for babies ages 12 - 18 months
More books for babies! We might be getting a little more complicated here, but not much. But books will start having more of a story arc...

Mary K
Jun 12, 20242 min read


Favorite books for young babies ages 6 - 12 months
Continuing the list of board books for babies, we're now getting into books with maybe a little more plot (rather than just pages with...

Mary K
May 5, 20242 min read


Favorite books for infants ages 0 - 6 months
So, first, I admit, "babies" is a broad category. There is a difference between what a newborn might respond to versus a 9 month old...

Mary K
May 5, 20244 min read


Bombastic Side-eye: Unreliable Narrators in Picture Books.
*[cross-posted on In The Writer’s Web] I realized recently that two of my manuscripts have unreliable narrators. One is a “voice...

Mary K
May 2, 20243 min read


Favorite books for Toddlers
What do toddlers like in picture books? What kinds of books will keep them most engaged? Young toddlers are still developing their eyesight, so super-complicated images with lots of detail might be harder to decipher. They need more information spelled out in the text, and a simpler plot with fewer sentences - one or two per page - as their attention spans are short. VERY short. Toddlers, in general*, love: books with repeated refrains, simple concepts (counting, colors, numb

Mary K
Apr 28, 20245 min read


Hi! I'm Mary.
An introduction to Mary and how she became a writer.

Mary K
Apr 21, 20243 min read
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