New Kid author and illustrator, Jerry Craft shares how stories can help kids accept others’ differences.

📚 Books build empathy. What books have changed your perspective?

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Kate DiCamillo finds her way in the world through writing children’s books. In this video, she shares with First Book and One Word At a Time, how stories are a tool for readers and authors.

Tell us: what helps you find your way?

#FirstBook #OneWordAtATime #KateDiCamillo #WordsofWiadom #Authors

At our Literacy Pep Rally with One Word At a Time, Kwame Alexander, Kate DiCamillo, and Jerry Craft, reflected on how books can help heal, guide, and help us understand each other.

Their stories remind us why books are important.

🎥 How have stories shaped your life?

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Grief doesn’t wait for the perfect sentence. It shows up in fragments, in silence, in the spaces between words.
If your heart is heavy but your pen still moves, this one’s for you.

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#WritingThroughGrief #OneWordAtATime #GriefAndStorytelling #EmotionalWriting

One Word At A Time
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Hard to believe this was 10 years ago… America Needs To Change, To Heal, To Peacefully Protest, Before We Lose Our Democracy… Before We Lose Everything!! One small act at a time… One person at a time… One day at a time… #SaveDemocracy #NoKingsInAmerica #NoToFascism

325 words is not too bad, least for me. It could be more, but I am happy and thankful for at least something. Even more so with all of the craziness of this time of year.

#Writing #BookWriting #Dabble #Words #WordCount #OneWordAtATime #StoryWriting #Thankful

A purple notebook on the left with three stickers: Daily Writing Journal, I Am My Ancestor's Wildest Dreams (over a picture of a black woman smiling). Red spiral notebook on the right with several motivational stickers: Plantser, All Hail the Shitty First Draft, a picture of various writing instruments labeled Weapons of Mass Creation, a bar half-full of green bars labeled Novel in Progress, a quill dripping ink, and a sticker labeled Get The Bread/Yeet This Wheat/Obtain the Grain/Finagle That Bagel/Feast On This Yeast.

Journaling is a way to get those overnight thoughts out of my head.

My evening routine includes the notebook on the right. It's my permission to myself to keep writing.

I'm a #storycoach and #developmentaleditor by day.

At night, I'm bringing my novel to life #onewordatatime.

Revising amazes me. Sometimes, a single word makes a whole world of difference.

#amwriting
#amrevising
#onewordatatime

If you put words on paper or a computer, you are a writer.

Start thinking of yourself as an author as well, #onewordatatime.

In the words of René Descartes: "I think, therefore I am."

#thursdaythoughts #writerlife #amwriting

I'm SUPER excited to start in on #ClubEdFreelancers's Certificate in Fiction Developmental Editing program!

This is yet another step forward in being able to serve current and future clients #onewordatatime!

#amediting #professionaldevelopment #editorlife #learnyourcraft

Five chapters into my new novel outline. Today is a good day.

#WIP #WritingCommunity #GetItDone #OneWordAtATime

746 words, most of which I just cut. It's okay -- I've got some time to keep writing before bed, so onward! #amwriting #onewordatatime

What shall we #amwriting today, Brain? #TakingOverTheWorld #OneWordAtATime