The Prize: One critique of your fiction picture book manuscript (max 1000 words.) This auction ends Saturday, 7/25. 11:59PM EASTERN (this website runs on Central time, one hour behind Eastern! So make sure you are bidding based on EASTERN.)
Abigail Samoun
The Darer: Abigail Samoun is a project editor with Tricycle Press in Berkeley, California. Abigail has edited board books, picture books, and middle-grade fiction. These include the 2003 Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) Golden Kite winner for best picture book text, George Hogglesberry: Grade School Alien by Sarah Wilson with illustrations by Chad Cameron and the 2004 New York Public Library Ezra Jack Keats award-winner, Yesterday I Had the Blues by Jeron Frame with illustrations by R. Gregory Christie. Abigail also edits the middle grade series Edgar & Ellen published by Simon & Schuster. Some other books Abigail has edited:King & King by Stern Nijland and Linda de Haan, Ten Little Elvi by Duffy Grooms and Laura Henson, illustrated by Dean Gorissen, Finklehopper Frog by Irene Livingston, illustrated by Brian Lies. The “Busy” board book series: Busy Monkeys, Busy Doggies, Busy Kitties, Busy Piggies, Busy Barnyard, and Busy Horsies; Urban Babies Wear Black (board book series).
Favorite recent children’s books: A Wreath for Emmett Till by Marilyn Nelson (published by Houghton-Mifflin)DeShawn Days by Tony Medina, illustrated by Greg Christie (Lee and Low Books)Mountain Dance by Thomas Locket (Harcourt)Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll, illustrated by Stephane Jorisch (Kids Can Press)Invisible Enemies: Stories of Infectious Disease by Jeanete Farrell (FSG)Guinea Pig Scientists: Bold Self-Experimenters in Science and Medicine by Leslie Dendy and Mel Boring, with illustrations by C.B. Mordan (Henry Holt)Freaky Green Eyes, by Joyce Carol Oates (Harper Collins)
“I had a chance to hear Abigail speak at an SCBWI conference this past spring. She is as witty, insightful and a caring cultivator of wonderful books for children. Seriously, you should hear her stories of looking for the right lines for a picture book text. She’s pitch-perfect and I have no doubt she’ll be able to see right into the heart of your ms!”
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PARIS PAN, nominated for Texas Lone Star Reading List 2010
Paris Pan Takes the Dare draws you in and won't let you go until the end."
$125.
(Thank you, Cynthea and Abigail!)
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