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Kathy Stinson, author of internationally acclaimed Canadian children's classic, Red is Best and the TD Award Winner, The Man with the Violin, also writes novels, short stories, and nonfiction for young people of all ages. ...more

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Kathy Stinson Above all, read. Read lots. Read widely. And write.
Kathy Stinson As soon as I finished reading Gene Weingarten’s Pulitzer Prize winning story, “Pearls Before Breakfast” about an experiment conducted by the Washingto…moreAs soon as I finished reading Gene Weingarten’s Pulitzer Prize winning story, “Pearls Before Breakfast” about an experiment conducted by the Washington Post in 2007, in which virtuoso violinist, Joshua Bell, played in a subway station dressed as an ordinary street musician, I knew I had to tell the story as a child might have experienced it.(less)
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What Happened to Ivy

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“Do you illustrate your books too?”

This is a question I was often asked, back when I was meeting with kids in schools and libraries across the country. I told them, “I like to draw but don’t draw well enough to illustrate a book, so publishers hire artists they believe will do a good job.” Sometimes I added, “It took me thirty years to be able to write a book that was good enough to be published. (Red Is Best.) Maybe in another

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