Marilyn Singer

The New York State Reading Association Youth Book Blog

Kirsten Down’s students at the Town of Webb School read the NYSRA Charlotte Award nominated Mirror, Mirror by Marilyn Singer and illustrated by Josee Massee and asked Ms. Singer the following questions. Ms. Singer graciously replied.

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Reading Rockets: A video interview with Marilyn Singer

“Marilyn Singer has written all kinds of great books for children and young adults — picture books, fairy tales, mysteries, non-fiction, and novels — but poetry is her favorite. Singer is on a mission to ‘knock poetry off its pedestal’ and to introduce kids to the pleasing rhythms and powerful emotion of poems, but also to encourage kids to express themselves through verse.”

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The Miss Rumphius Effect (Tricia Stohr-Hunt)

“I discovered Marilyn Singer in the late 80s when I was teaching science. My fifth grade students were studying adaptations and I wanted to share some animal poems with them. While browsing in a local bookstore I came across the book Turtle in July.”

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David Harrison’s Blog

“I hope that everyone can take a few minutes to enjoy the remarks of my blog guest today, Marilyn Singer. She has much to offer and has managed to be concise and helpful at the same time by first responding to six questions and then suggesting 10 tips for writing poetry. She threw one of the questions back to me so I have a response in there too. This is the kind of information you’ll want to refer back to from time to time. My thanks to Marilyn. Without further ado, read on.”

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Cynthia Leitich Smith’s Cynsations

Cynsations is a source for conversations, publishing information, literacy and free speech advocacy, writer resources, inspiration, news in children’s and young adult literature, and author outreach.

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TeensReadToo.com

“First off, thanks so much for joining us for an up-close and personal interview for TeensReadToo.com! My name is Jen, and I’ll be your server toda…oh, wait, wrong job! Anyway, thanks so much for taking time out of your writing schedule—which I’m sure is busy!—and answering a few questions for your readers and fans.”

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Who Wrote That? by Patricia M. Newman

“Marilyn Singer describes herself as a curious person—an accurate description when you consider the more than 50 children’s books she has written, including poetry, fairy tales, picture books, novels, mysteries, and nonfiction on a wide variety of topics. ‘I like being called versatile,’ says Singer. ‘I like that I write on lots of different things.’”

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“Sidelights Sketch” from SOMETHING ABOUT THE AUTHOR, Vols. 80 & 125

“Marilyn Singer is an award-winning author of children’s books in a wide variety of genres, including fiction and nonfiction picture books, juvenile novels and mysteries, young adult fantasies, and poetry. Among her many characters are a dog who insists he is not a dog, an armadillo, a young heart surgery patient, obsessive Lizzie Silver, Stryker the poltergeist, twin detectives named Sam and Dave–even a dog detective. ‘People often ask me why I write so many different kinds of things,’ Singer commented in an essay for the Something about the Author Autobiography Series (SAAS). ‘I tell them it’s because I have so many different parts to my personality, and each part has a different way of expressing itself. I tell them too that I like to challenge myself so that I’ll never be bored.’”

Click here to read the article about me in SOMETHING ABOUT THE AUTHOR