I love summer in NYC. As soon as Memorial Day hits, my friends know that they can expect my weekly (…or maybe daily) emails about what fun outdoor events are happening around the city. Outdoor concerts, plays, movies, fairs…I love it all. And this summer has a particularly fun project: the Key to the City.
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Unlocking New York City
Martha’s Test Kitchen: The Silver Phoenix Mapo Tofu
Something new for the test kitchen: cooking instead of baking!
If you’ve already read Cindy Pon’s Silver Phoenix, you know how important a good meal is to our heroine, Ai Ling. (You can’t be expected to battle mythical demons on an empty stomach, after all.) So, for the paperback edition, Cindy sent us one of her [...]
How I Got to Greenwillow Books: Martha
I guess I could say it all began here:
But it took another 21 years for me to find my place at Greenwillow. I followed a pretty traditional path: English major, study abroad in England, writing center tutor, literary magazine editor. Along the way, I realized that being a children’s book editor was a job. And [...]
Martha’s Test Kitchen: Amelia Bedelia’s Apple Pie
Amelia Bedelia’s Apple Pie
Amelia Bedelia has been keeping me busy in the test kitchen. First, I made a sheet cake like Amelia Bedelia does in Amelia Bedelia Bakes Off. And the next book starring the young Amelia Bedelia is Amelia Bedelia’s First Apple Pie. So–you guessed it!–it was time for me to make an apple [...]
Filling Lilly’s Cowboy Boots
One day, about a year after I began working at Greenwillow, Virginia asked me, “Do you want to be Lilly?”
Well, who doesn’t want to be Lilly? Fabulous cape, pointy crown, those red boots! And let’s not forget the purple plastic purse. Wearing the Lilly costume is something of a rite of passage for Greenwillowites—at least [...]
