Heidi Stemple, Children's Author

Send us Fan MailIn this episode, I chat with Heidi Stemple about her writing practice, the rules and skills needed to write children's books, having  a celebrity writing mother (Jane Yolen), and keeping the writing business in the family!Heidi Stemple didn’t want to be a writer when she grew up. In fact, after she graduated from college, she became a probation officer in Florida. It wasn’t until she was 28 years old that she gave in and joined the family business, publishing her first short story in a book called Famous Writers and Their Kids Write Spooky Stories. The famous writer was her mom, author Jane Yolen. Since then, she has published more than thirty-five books and numerous short stories and poems, mostly for children. Heidi lives and writes on a big old farm in Massachusetts that she shares with one very large cat who lives inside, and a dozen deer, a family of bears, three coyotes, two bobcats, a gray fox, tons of birds, and some very fat groundhogs who live outside. Once a year she calls owls for the Audubon Christmas Bird Count.Heidi StempleBooks by Heidi StempleOwl Moon, Jane YolenThe Tower of Life: How Yaffa Eliach Rebuilt Her Town in Stories and Photograph, Chana Stiefel (author), Susan Gal (illustrator)Too Early, Nora EricsonThe Life And Crimes Of Hoodie Rosen, Isaac BlumA Time to Dance, Padma VenkatramanFlamer, Mike CuratoAll Boys Aren’t Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto, George M. JohnsonThe Kidlit WorldSupport the showThe Bookshop PodcastMandy Jackson-BeverlySocial Media Links