Cynthea Liu
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Great News!
WOOBY AND PEEP is coming in 2013!
PARIS PAN will be released in Germany!
PARIS PAN is a Scholastic Book Clubs selection!
PARIS PAN and THE GREAT CALL OF CHINA are both APALA Book List selections!
PARIS PAN is an Oklahoma Book Award finalist!
PARIS PAN, nominated for Texas Lone Star Reading List 2010
THE GREAT CALL OF CHINA is a NoveList Best and a Grab-and-Go title!
PARIS PAN is part of the Accelerated Reader program and Scholastic Reading Counts!
Reviews
"The book is well paced and Paris's desire for friendship will ring true with middle school readers." School Library Journal"Liu's story, refreshingly, features a Chinese American narrator whose ethnicity is not at the story's center." Horn Book
Paris Pan Takes the Dare draws you in and won't let you go until the end." TeensReadToo, Gold Star Award for Excellence
"Liu's latest book, Paris Pan Takes the Dare, is a stylish, character-driven story with an appealing, spunky heroine." Chicago Sun Times
Category Archives: Picture Book
Critique from Associate Editor Martha Mihalick, Greenwillow Books, HarperCollins
The Prize: One critique of your picture book manuscript (1000 words max.) or your first five double-spaced pages of your fiction middle grade or young adult novel.
The Darer: Martha Mihalick is the associate editor at Greenwillow Books, an imprint of [...]
PB or 5 Page Novel Critique from Editor Kristin Daly, Balzer & Bray, HarperCollins
The Prize: One critique of your fiction picture book (1000 words max.) or the first five double-spaced pages or your middle grade or young adult novel.
The Darer: Kristin Daly first became interested in children’s books as a career in high [...]
PB Critique from Editor Andrea Welch, Beach Lane Books, Simon & Schuster
The Prize: One critique of your fiction picture book manuscript (1000 words max).
The Darer: Andrea Welch is an editor at Simon & Schuster’s new Beach Lane Books imprint, where she has the pleasure of working with authors and [...]
Critique from Author Kate Messner (Contemp Realistic)
“If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where
they are needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay
alive.” – Barry Lopez, Crow and Weasel
I’m not sure if this quote has [...]
Critique from Author Jean Reidy
The Prize: One critique of your picture book manuscript (1000 words max.)
The Darer: Jean Reidy’s been told that a naughty little kid lurks somewhere inside her — and she takes that as a high compliment. She writes from her home [...]
Critique from Agent Jennifer Mattson, Andrea Brown Literary Agency
The Prize: One critique of the first five double-spaced pages of either your middle grade, young adult novel, or picture book.
The Darer: Jennifer loves picture books that are real, storytime-ready stories (no one-joke tales or mood pieces), and has a [...]
Author Marketing Consulting Services Package from Shelli Johannes-Wells
Every child deserves a safe, supportive, and creative environment in which to learn. No matter what a child’s life is like, books have the magic ability to transport any child away from their troubles and into animaginary world. This is [...]
PB Critique from Agent Jennifer Rofe, Andrea Brown Literary Agency
Having once been a teacher, I’ve seen first-hand the positive impact reading has on teens. Books rule!
The Prize: One critique of the first five-pages of your double-spaced manuscript for a fiction picture book (1000 words max).
The Darer: Jennifer handles children’s [...]
PB Critique from Author J.C. Phillipps
The Prize: A full PB manuscript critique (1000 words max).
The Darer: J. C. Phillipps, author of Wink, grew up in Ohio taking Saturday morning classes at the Toledo Museum of Art. She studied theater and art at college and graduate [...]
PB Critique from Author Tammi Sauer
Reading opens up a world of possibilities.
The Prize: First five-pages double-spaced manuscript critique of any fiction picture book.
The Darer: Tammi Sauer—author of Cowboy Camp, Chicken Dance, and a number of forthcoming titles—grew up on a farm outside the small town of [...]