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Deborah Wiles

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Deborah Wiles is the author of several highly acclaimed books, including the beloved Love, Ruby Lavender and two National Book Award finalists–Each Little Bird That Sings and Revolution. Her first picture book, Freedom Summer, received the Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award. She is also an NAACP Book Award finalist, E.B. White Award winner, Golden Kite Award winner, Jane Addams Peace Award Finalist, and recipient of a PEN Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Working Writer Fellowship. Her most recent novel is for young adults, Kent State. Her newest picture book, Simple Thanks, was published in 2024. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia. You can visit her on the web at deborahwiles.com, write with her at Storybelly.com, and follow her on social media platforms a ...more

Storybelly Digest: Treekeeping

So she finally came down, the majestic silver maple that has lived at the edge of my forest garden for more than fifty years. When she hadn’t leafed out for years, we coppiced her, cutting the limbs and trunk back to create a snag for wildlife.

Still, weakened limbs occasionally fell, sometimes in our neighbor’s back yard. We cut off the limbs to create a luxury apartment complex and hoped for bat

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Each Little Bird that Sings

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“The secret to not being afraid is to understand what scares you”
Deborah Wiles, Countdown

“There are always scary things happening in the world. There are always wonderful things happening. And it's up to you to decide how you're going to approach the world...how you're going to live in it, and what you're going to do."

—Jo Ellen Chapman”
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“This is how it works. Everything is connected. Every choice matters. Every person is vital, and valuable, and worthy of respect.”
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