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 [...]
Archive of entries posted on June 2010
Martha’s Test Kitchen: The Silver Phoenix Mapo Tofu
Greenwillow Books Alumni Association Report: Victoria Jamieson
My two-odd-year stint as a designer with Greenwillow Books was a shining period in my life I like to call “Camelot”. I had been working as a design assistant with HarperCollins Children’s Books for about two years when talk around the water cooler turned to an open position with Greenwillow. (This was my first “office” job, [...]
Visiting the 23rd Floor: Daniel Roode
It’s 88 degrees outside (according to the Burberry clock) but nice and cool on the 23rd floor. In fact, Tim is wearing a jacket. Daniel Roode just stopped by to work on Little Bea and the Snowy Day—the companion to his debut picture book, Little Bea, which we will publish in early 2011. Can bees [...]
Razzle v. The Copy Machine
Another day, another paper jam.
Happy weekend, everyone!
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 [...]
