Guest Post: Susan Kralovansky on Transitioning from Librarian to Children's Book Author

Susan Kralovansky at a school visit. By Susan Kralovansky
for Cynthia Leitich Smith's Cynsations

I love books. I love the smell of new books, the brittle pages of old books, and I love collecting the books of my favorite authors.

As a child, I spent all my free time at the public library. In fact, I spent so much time there that I gave myself the job of Children’s Room Library Assistant, complete with my own desk and cardboard nameplate.

As a school librarian, I told my students that I had t...