Most children’s book authors and illustrators are driven by the deep desire to communicate. We believe that speaking the truth can make the world a better place for one child. We fervently hope it will make a difference in the lives of millions.
But what does “a better place” mean?
In this series, the authors and illustrators of AIC will tell you, in their own words and pictures, what they wish for. What world they would have our children inherit. What secret dream supports their desks and easels.
And our hope is that, speaking these dreams, the world will listen.
Take these dreams. Share them with your children, your students, your teachers.
For each essay, there is a PDF file available to download below. Posters are available in the AIC Store. Let the world know what is possible!
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THIS I DREAM for OUR VOTE By David LaRochelle Art by TBA |
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THIS I DREAM for HEALING THE WORLD By Jennifer Armstrong Art by Tomie dePaola |
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Biography of Authors and Artists
Marion Dane Bauer
Marion Dane Bauer (www.mariondanebauer.com) writes and teaches, writes and teaches--and loves doing both. Oh . . . sometimes she takes time off to play with her nine grandchildren.
Janie Bynum
Janie Bynum (www.janiebynum.com) writes and illustrates for children and designs/creates for adults (www.bynumcreative.com). She hopes to contribute to change for all—here in the U.S. and abroad. It's time for a better evolved, more compassionate world.
Lisa Desimini
Lisa Desimini (www.lisadesimini.com) has written and/or illustrated over thirty books for kids. It is her passion, along with yoga and cooking and visiting schools to share her books with kids.
Deborah Hopkinson
Deborah Hopkinson (www.deborahhopkinson.com) is the author of many books for young readers including Apples to Oregon, Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt, and Who Was Charles Darwin? In honor of the Lincoln/Darwin bicentennial she will publish the forthcoming Abe Lincoln Crosses a Creek and The Humbleebee Hunter. She lives in Oregon.
Gail Carson Levine
Gail Carson Levine (www.gailcarsonlevinebooks.com) writes for young people from her 218-year-old farmhouse in New York’s Hudson Valley, where she lives with her husband David and Baxter, the sock-eating dog. Gail’s best known book is Ella Enchanted, which won a Newbery honor in 1998.
George Ella Lyon
George Ella Lyon (www.georgeellalyon.com) writes, teaches, vigils for peace,
and sings with PUBLIC OUTCRY to protest mountaintop removal coal mining. For more about her work, see also MySpace.com/publicoutcryky.
Suzanne Fisher Staples
Suzanne Fisher Staples (www.suzannefisherstaples.com) is a former journalist who now writes books about Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India, where she worked for almost twenty years.
Elsa Warnick
Elsa Warnick (www.elsawarnick.com) has illustrated nine children's books. She lives in Portland, Oregon, teaches a class on illustrating for Children's Literature for PCC, and is a faculty member each summer at the Children's Book Conference.
Virginia Euwer Wolff
Virginia Euwer Wolff lives, writes, and plays chamber music in Oregon where
she and her violin live on the bank of a creek. Her sixth book will be
published in March, 2009. She won the National Book Award in 2001.
Jane Yolen
Jane Yolen (www.janeyolen.com) has 300 books out and apologizes to the trees. She's a passionate recycler, in both her life and her stories.
Our New Campaign!
THIS I DREAM
What world will we create for the next generation? What vision will guide our decisions?
Celebrated Authors & Artists share their dreams for our children. Join us in making their dreams a reality.
