A.C.E. Bauer

I have a desk?

admin — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:50:20 +0000

I blog about my workspaces at Write Up Our Alley. You can read about it here.

Save the date: Albany Children’s Book Festival

admin — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:39:07 +0000

I will be there, and presenting a workshop! More information to follow.

Seasonal read-aloud list

admin — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:39:22 +0000

What do The Tree of the Dancing Goats, The Watsons Go to Birmingham–1963, and Once Upon a Time in the North all have in common? They are on a reading list of great read-alouds that fit this winter season. I blog about it on Write Up Our Alley. Go check it out!

Available for pre-order

admin — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:40:29 +0000

Come Fall is now available for pre-order at Amazon.com. I am getting very excited!

Appearing in Manchester

admin — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:03:50 +0000

This Wednesday October 28 at 7 p.m., I’ll be presenting a workshop for writers and illustrators at the Barnes & Noble in Manchester, Connecticut with fabulous writer and editor Doe Boyle, and Donita Aruny from the Shoreline Arts Alliance. We’ll discuss writing and illustrating children’s books and give helpful information about the annual Tassy Walden Awards: New Voices In Children’s Literature.

Drop in and say hello!

And here’s the cover

admin — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:56:17 +0000

For Come Fall. The artist is Tim Jessell. Publication date is July 27, 2010.

Squeee!!!!!

Library Thing shelftalker

admin — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 21:02:54 +0000

Elizabeth Bluemle wrote an insightful piece for Shelftalker: A Children’s Bookseller’s Blog (for Publisher’s Weekly) asking us Where’s Ramona Quimby, Black and Pretty? She took issue with the publishing canard that white readers aren’t interested in characters of color. She also called on writers, editors, publishers and booksellers to send her titles of modern books with main characters of color where the book isn’t primarily about race. The result was an outpouring of information, which she detailed here. She decided to pull together the suggested books on a Library Thing list.

There are many lists and sources of information on the web, like Cynthia Leitich Smith’s website; The Brown Bookshelf; American Indians in Children’s Literature; Oyate; Celebrating Cultural Diversity Through Children’s Literature. But the more shout-outs for books with characters of all colors, the better.

Bravo Elizabeth!

[And thank you to Nicole Tadgell for the links.]

A heartwarming review

admin — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 13:09:05 +0000

School Library Journal had some nice things to say about the audio book for No Castles Here. They liked the novel, calling it a “heartwarming, wonderfully written story,” and enjoyed John Mayer’s narration. You can read the whole review here.

We have a winner!

admin — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 21:39:27 +0000

Finally, my second novel has a title! Come Fall. There’s a chance it could still change. But for the moment, at least, Random House is very pleased about it. And so am I.

The story answers a question that had been bothering me for a long time. Whatever happened to that changeling/page that Queen Titania and King Oberon of the fairies argued about in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream? We find him one autumn, placed in yet another foster home, when he meets a girl from a family with too many boys (as far as she is concerned), and a remarkably insightful boy with Asperger’s. It is a story about friendship. And about fairies who, if they’ve interfered with your life once, are bound to interfere again.

I promise more updates as they come in.

Write Up Our Alley

admin — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:17:26 +0000

We’re eight of us: Kate Duke, Deborah Freedman, Kathleen Kudlinski, M.W. Penn, Sanna Stanley, Leigh Ann Tyson, Cat Urbain, and me. Collectively, we’ve spent decades in the writing business, publishing over 75 children’s books. We write in different genres, covering nonfiction, picture books, middle grade novels, educational materials, historical fiction, YA, poetry. Despite our variety, we’ve discovered how many things we have in common.

We care about quality literature. And I don’t just mean our books — books that matter and that kids will enjoy. Our works explore similar themes, crossing age groups and genres. And more than anything else, we all want to get kids to read.

So we decided to form a group, Write Up Our Alley. We’ve pooled our knowledge and experience, and are building programs and resources for others who share our passions. We’ve put up a website — a work in progress — and on it started a blog where we will share what we’ve learned in the business, what we know about reaching kids, and our love of books. We post about once a week. It’s still an experiment, but we’ve been thinking about this for a long time. Come join us.