Sarah L. Thomson, Children's Author

Fingers Crossed

Posted by Sarah L. Thomson on Dec 3, 2019 in Uncategorized | Comments Off on Fingers Crossed

The choice of an artist really creates a picture book–it doesn’t truly exist until art and words come together. The lovely and talented Erin Robinson is considering illustrating one of my picture book manuscripts at the moment. With her it would be a dreamy, rich, poetic, evocative, emotional book. Keep your fingers crossed, everyone–I really want to see the book that would result from her art and my words!

Thankful For…

Posted by Sarah L. Thomson on Nov 28, 2019 in Children's Literature, Inspiration, What I've Been Reading | Comments Off on Thankful For…

Readers.
Readers who take a chance with a new book they might just like.
Readers who cling to dogeared favorites with covers worn shabby and soft.
Readers who cry when a favorite characters dies.
Readers who cry when the dog dies. (That’s me.)
Readers who can’t wait for the next book in the sequel.
Readers who make my job possible.
Readers who will turn into the next generation of writers.

Thank you.

You Can Never Go Back

Posted by Sarah L. Thomson on Nov 21, 2019 in Childhood, Children's Literature, Uncategorized | Comments Off on You Can Never Go Back

So many wonderful lines in this amazing essay by Anya Jaremko-Greenwold, I can’t keep myself from quoting:

I’d trade sex and booze and wisdom—all the best parts about being Grown—if I could have back [childhood]. Colors brighter, smells stronger, days bleeding on forever, and oh . . . reading. In childhood, there’s almost nothing to keep you from reading.

Kid’s books are where I personally learned most everything important about the world: About rape and sinister men from Beatrix Potter’s Jemima Puddle-Duck; about eroticism from Sendak’s In the Night Kitchen; about feminism from P.L Travers’ maverick goddess Mary Poppins; about loss and the unceasing progress of time from E.B. White’s Charlotte’s Web.

And lots more. Go read it!

You Can Never Go Back: On Loving Children’s Books as an Adult

My Best Catch

Posted by Sarah L. Thomson on Nov 14, 2019 in Editing | Comments Off on My Best Catch

I’ve been proofreading a new manuscript lately–this is something I do on the side. It made me rememberer the best catch I ever made as a proofreader. I’m still proud of this, years later.