authorship

Presents conversations with J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter books, in which she shares information about her childhood, her school years, and the path she took to become a bestselling writer.

Explains the process of creating a comic book, from developing characters and plotting story lines to using storyboards and creating comic book art. Looks at how professional comic book artists work and what it takes to get into the business.

Text and cartoon illustrations describe the process of writing, illustrating, and publishing a children's book, including generating ideas, revising text, and promoting the finished product.

Children's author Helen Lester describes her life from age three to adulthood and discusses how she writes.

Provides children with practical advice on how to write poems.

Presents a memoir of what it was like to grow up in the 1950s and other almost true stories by American children's author Jon Scieszka.

A biography of the English author and illustrator who grew up during the Victorian era and whose detailed drawings of plants and animals found their way into her famous picture books.