The Prize: One critique of your picture book manuscript (1000 words max.) or the first five double-spaced pages of your fiction middle grade or young adult novel.

The Darer: Alvina Ling, Senior Editor, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. Alvina acquires children’s books for all ages (baby-teen), with a particular interest in literary middle grade fiction and books with multicultural themes. She is interested in both genre (including science fiction, fantasy, and mystery) and contemporary fiction, and is a fan of beautiful and/or funky picture books with unique illustration styles, as well as trade nonfiction books. Some of her recent publications include the NY Times bestselling picture books Wabi Sabi by Mark Reibstein, illustrated by Ed Young and The Curious Garden by Peter Brown; Eggs by Jerry Spinelli; Edgar Award winner The Postcard by Tony Abbott; Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin; North of Beautiful by Justina Chen Headley; The Devouring by Simon Holt; and Freaks and Revelations by Davida Wills Hurwin. Before starting at Little, Brown in 1999, Alvina was a bookseller, an intern at Charlesbridge Publishing and The Horn Book, and has always been a life-long lover of children’s books.

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