Fictional Truth by Heidi Schulz

Excellent article by a children’s book author :-)

Nerdy Book Club

I lie about telling lies. My official author bio says, “Lies to children for fun and profit,” but I strongly believe the job of a children’s author is to tell the truth.  Ever since Dick and Jane, I have depended on books to illuminate, reveal, or to reinforce truths that I already know—but never so much as I did when I was eleven, for that is when books first saved me.

One evening in my last year of elementary school, I went...