10/29/11
My book We Belong Together was 1 of 150 books recently selected out of 650 entries nationwide to be featured in the Society of Illustrators 2011 Original Art Show, an exhibit which showcases the year’s best children’s books. Here’s a link to more information about the show including the complete list of all the illustrators [...]
Tags: board books, Books, children's book, children's book author, children's books, Joyce Wan, original art show, picture books, society of illustrators, we belong together
09/02/11
A little late on this recap but I just had to share! Right after my first picture book Greetings from Kiwi and Pear came out in 2009 I joined the Society Of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators to absorb as much as I could about the craft of writing/illustrating children’s books and about the publishing [...]
Tags: children's book, children's book author, children's book conference, children's books, Joyce Wan, LA-SCBWI, picture books, scbwi
07/13/11
Coming soon…
Get yours now!
Also coming this Fall:
Tags: board book, children's book, cupcake, you are my cupcake
06/13/11
Last weekend I attended an amazing children’s book writers and illustrators conference at the Wyndham Princeton Forrestal Hotel and Conference Center in Princeton, New Jersey hosted by the New Jersey Chapter of the Society of Childrens Book Writers and Illustrators.
It was a fabulous weekend full of workshops, networking functions, inspirational keynote speeches as well [...]
Tags: children's book, children's book author, grace lin, Joyce Wan, NJ-SCBWI, scbwi, society of childrens book writers and illustrators, Wanart
09/08/10
Seems like my summer is ending with quite a bang! Three new wonderful reviews on my book Greetings from Kiwi and Pear just came in within the last few weeks. I provided excerpts for the first two reviews, to read the rest, click on the links to the blogs. For the third I posted the [...]
Tags: children's book, cute everything, dianne de las casas, Joyce Wan, kiwi and pear, reviews, thats it mommy, the story connection
05/24/10
There’s a SCBWI New Jersey Chapter conference in a couple of weeks. These conferences are great as we get to take workshops on a variety of book topics as well as sign up for a one-on-one critique on a manuscript with an editor or literary agent! They also get me motivated to work on [...]
Tags: children's book, Joyce Wan, NJ-SCBWI, picture books, scbwi
12/08/09
I recently had the great pleasure of being interviewed by Lillie Forteau and Dr. Jessie Voigts of wanderingeducators.com for my book Greetings from Kiwi and Pear. Wandering Educators is an amazing resource for discovering extraordinary travel destinations, fascinating people, and global artists and photographers, among other articles as well as being the largest source of travel [...]
Tags: Book Review, children's book, children's travel books, greetings from kiwi and pear, kids books, kids travel books, picture book, travel books, traveller, wandering educators, wanderingeducators.com
07/18/09
Well, it’s starting to feel like summer here finally but I thought I’d heat things up a bit more by offering one signed copy of my book “Greetings from Kiwi and Pear” to one lucky reader! Thanks to all of you who have already purchased the book!!
If you’d like to enter for a chance to win, [...]
Tags: book giveaway, children's book, cute monkeys, free book, greetings from kiwi and pear, travel book
03/18/09
“Greetings from Kiwi and Pear” is finally available on the web! Here are the direct links to places where you can find it:
Chronicle Books
Amazon
Barnes and Noble
Borders
So exciting!!!
Tags: children's book, children's book author, children's books, cute monkeys, geography book, hugging monkeys, Joyce Wan, kiwi and pear, monkeys, travel books, Wanart, world map
02/14/09
It was so exciting to see my book in the Chronicle Books booth along with all the other books at the New York Gift Fair a couple of weeks ago – it was almost surreal! It’s fun to think that I met my publisher at this very show just a year ago. I got some [...]
Tags: children's book, Joyce Wan, kiwi and pear, Wanart