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Jen Betton loves to draw and make up stories with her pictures. In Kindergarten she got into trouble for drawing presents on a picture of Santa, and she has been illustrating ever since. She wrote and illustrated HEDGEHOG NEEDS A HUG, published with Putnam, which won Pennsylvania's Keystone to Reading Award. She illustrated TWILIGHT CHANT, written by Holly Thompson, published with Clarion, which was an NCTE Notable Book, and BARN AT NIGHT, written by Michelle Houts and published with Feeding Minds Press.

She has a BA in English, and a BFA and MFA in Illustration. She now lives near Dallas with her husband and two children. You can see more of her work at www.jenbetton.com ...more

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How to Make a Children's Book Portfolio Part 1: Format

When creating a children's book portfolio there are three key elements to consider: format, content, and flow. This is the first of a three-part series on crafting a professional children's book portfolio.
FORMATThis is the simplest of the three elements, but it has a lot to do with how the person looking at your work will interact with it. First, think about your venue. Are you showing your p Read more of this blog post »

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“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
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“But in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like the night sky in the Greek poem, I see with a myriad eyes, but it is still I who see. Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do.”
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“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
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