Author: Ron Koertge

I told a pal here in L.A. I would take a look at the first chapter or so of her friend’s YA about a girl raised by wolves who is trying to integrate back into society.And I’d no more than sent the e-mail than the...

It’s Earth Day and my birthday! RK

In L.A., anyway, (and I imagine on other NPR stations) a guy named Michael Silverblatt does an interview-the-author show. I tuned in for just a minute as I got off the freeway and pointed my Toyota (only going 35 compared to...

“What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.” What might this quote from Sigmund Freud mean to us as children’s writers? Do...

Vera Wang says that she loves to travel and will go anywhere that gets her out of her routine and lets her see new things. It’s easy to translate “see new things” into see things in a new way, which will lead...