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How the Moon Regained Her Shape on SCBWI’s Reading List for books for children about mental health

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:May 7, 2022
Post category:Bullying Children's Literature Listings in Encyclopedias and Other Platforms Literature mental health Picture Book Psychological Issues Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators

My award-winning fiction picture book about bullying, How the Moon Regained Her Shape (Arbordale, 2006; 6th edition 2018), is on the May 2022 Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators Reading List on the theme of Mental Health Awareness. See https://www.scbwi.org/scbwi-reading-list/?cat=pb #bullying #picturebook #SCBWI #childrensbooks #mentalhealth #fiction Cover of Janet Ruth Heller's book How the Moon Regained Her Shape; artwork by Ben Hodson

“Bedtime Stories for Kids” article by Zoë Ettinger includes my award-winning fiction picture book about bullying How the Moon Regained Her Shape

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:February 19, 2022
Post category:Books Bullying Children's Literature

“Bedtime Stories for Kids: Classics, Diversity, and More” by Zoë Ettinger includes my award-winning fiction picture book about bullying How the Moon Regained Her Shape (Arbordale 2006; 6th edition 2018). The website is Mattress Clarity, and the link to this article is https://www.mattressclarity.com/blog/classic-bedtime-stories-for-kids/ #bedtimestories #childrensbooks #picturebooks #literatureforchildren #bullying #STEM #diversity Cover of How the Moon Regained Her Shape by Janet Ruth Heller; artwork by Ben Hodson

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I love books by British writers P. D. James, Seamus Heaney, S. T. Coleridge, Jane Austen, William Wordsworth, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, W. B. Yeats;

American writers Judy Blume, Edna St. Vincent Millay, T. S. Eliot, Maxine Kumin, Jim Daniels, Mong-Lan, Robert Hayden, Langston Hughes, Naomi Shihab Nye, Alberto Ríos, Gail B. Griffin, Jerry Spinelli, Jane Yolen, Kathryn Erskine, Gary D. Schmidt, Adrienne Rich, Judith Minty, Gwendolyn Brooks, Marge Piercy, Grace Paley, Alicia Ostriker, Jaimy Gordon; South African writer Athol Fugard;

Israeli writers Chaim Nachman Bialik, Yehudah Amichai, Rachel Bluwstein, Chaim Guri, S. Y. Agnon; and Hispanic writers Sor Juana, Federico García Lorca, Ruben Darío, Antonio Machado, Jorge Guillén, Pedro Salinas, and Dámaso Alonso.

I also love Japanese haiku, especially those by Matsuo Bashō.

My writing has been influenced by many other authors, including British writers Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Jane Austen, William Wordsworth, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, W. B. Yeats;

American writers Edna St. Vincent Millay, T. S. Eliot, Maxine Kumin, Adrienne Rich, Judith Minty, Gwendolyn Brooks;

Israeli writers Chaim Nachman Bialik, Yehudah Amichai, Rachel Bluwstein, Chaim Guri, S. Y. Agnon, and Hispanic writers Sor Juana, Federico Garcia Lorca, Ruben Dario, Antonio Machado, Jorge Guillen, Pedro Salinas, and Damaso Alonso.