Shutta Crum

Once you’ve tickled the water and the ripples radiate out . . .there’s no telling what shore they (or you) will wash up on.
In my near future, that shore happens to be in Japan!  Yes, you heard that right! And I owe it all to the good advice of fellow writer Cynthia Leitich Smith, (Eternal, [...]

 
Sometimes we need a little imbalance in our lives to make us think about how to get centered again. Writing a picture book in verse is like that, too.
When writing in poetical stanzas (With all those good things that any picture book needs-characterization, setting and a plot, for goodness sake!) the writer has an additional [...]