Discussing Writing & Craft with Children's Author & Illustrator, Amy Young EP 9

Reading to Succeed with Elizabeth Morphis · Feb 9, 2023 · 49m

I’m your host, Elizabeth Morphis and for today’s episode, we’ll hear how we can encourage kids to write and draw more, both inside and outside the classroom. We’ll also learn that encouraging kids to have ideas isn’t that tricky, ideas for writing are all around us.

Our guest today is Amy Young. Amy has wanted to be an artist from as early as she can remember. She became a lawyer, but ended up missing art too much, so she left the practice to write and illustrate full-time. She’s the author of several children’s books such as Belinda the Ballerina and A Unicorn Named Sparkle and illustrated…