In Episode 24 of the Book Chain project, Nadine Kaadan, author of 'Tomorrow', chats with Natascha Biebow, author of 'The Crayon Man: the true story of the invention of crayola crayons'(2019), winner of the Irma Black Award for Excellence in Children’s Books, Elephants Never Forget and Is This My Nose?, winner of the Booktrust Best Book for Babies. She has several other writing projects underway, including non-fiction picture books and chapter book series. She has over 25 years’ experience commissioning and editing pre-school novelty books, picture books, early readers, young fiction, and (pop-up) non-fiction at ABC, Dorling Kindersley and Random House Children’s Books in London. She is the founder of Blue Elephant Storyshaping, a coaching, editing and mentoring service aimed at helping children’s authors and illustrators shape their picture books, young fiction and novels pre-submission. She has been the Regional Advisor of the British Isles Region of the Society of Children’s Book Writers since 1998. In 2018, she was awarded an MBE (Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire). The honour is conferred by Her Majesty The Queen in recognition for her services to children’s writers and illustrators. She was the recipient of the 2019 SCBWI Stephen Mooser Member of the Year Award. She was born in Johannesburg, R.S.A., and grew up in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where she attended the American school. She has lived in London since 1993, where she moved after completing a B.A. in Developmental Psychology from Smith College, MA.
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Nadine Kaadan's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nadine_kaadan
Nadine Kaadan's Website: https://nadinekaadan.com/site
Buy 'Tomorrow' : https://uk.bookshop.org/contributors/nadine-kaadan
Natascha Biebow's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nataschabiebow
Natascha Biebow's Website: https://www.nataschabiebow.com/Buy 'THE CRAYON MAN: THE TRUE STORY OF THE INVENTION OF CRAYOLA CRAYONS' : https://uk.bookshop.org/contributors/natascha-biebow
Podcast of this interview: https://anchor.fm/thebookchainproject/
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