Writers young and old know it\'s hard to create a Story of one\'s own, here\'s a simple, elegant picture book that might help them find the key.
She lives in Denver, Colorado..
Hadley Hooper is a fine artist and the illustrator of many distinctive picture books, including The Iridescence of Birds , by Patricia Maclachlan, Another Way to Climb a Tree , by Liz Garton Scanlon, and Two Brothers, Four Hands , by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan.
She lives near Portland, Oregon.
Sky Boys, How They Built the Empire State Building , was a Boston Globe/Horn Book Honor awardee.
She has won the SCBWI Golden Kite Award for Picture Book Text Twice , for A Band of Angels and Apples to Oregon .
Sibert Honor and YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Award honor for Titanic: Voices from the Disaster .
In 2013 she received a Robert F.
A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection About author(s): Deborah Hopkinson is as award-winning of picture books, fiction, and nonfiction for young readers.
Two-time SCBWI Golden Kite Award Winner Deborah Hopkinson writes with the gentle reassurance of experience in The Story of a Story , with the help of the buoyant illustrations of Hadley Hooper.
The boy knows this is what it takes to create something special, so he comes back to his desk and writes just one word, and then another.
He admires its concentration and commitment as it picks away, one seed at a time, determined and unstoppable.
But just when he\'s about to give up hope, he sees a little chickadee collecting seeds outside his window.
He reads stories he loves and eats a cookie reaaaaaally slowly, just to pass the time.
He tries everything, scribbling, scrawling, and crumbling pages.
Words get tangled, pencils get broken, after a while you\'ll do anything just to distract yourself! The Story of a Story follows a boy with just the same problem as he struggles to find inspiration and get his words flowing.
If you\'ve ever tried to write a Story of your own, you know it\'s not as easy as it looks.
But the words won\'t come.
There are doodles.
There are squiggles.
And still another.
A mostly empty page Then another.
Hint: It involves persistence.
Writers young and old know it\'s hard to create a Story of one\'s own, here\'s a simple, elegant picture book that might help them find the key
