picture book – Janet Ruth Heller

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

Autographing at Michigan State Fair on September 2, 2021 from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:July 21, 2021
Post category:Autographing Book Fairs Books Chapter Book Children Children's Literature Fiction Janet's Speaking Events Literature Picture Book Poetry

Janet Ruth Heller will autograph and sell her books during Readers’ Roundup Literacy Day on Thursday, September 2, 2021 from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the Michigan State Fair in the Suburban Collection Showplace in Novi, Michigan. The address is 46100 Grand River, Novi MI 48374. Heller will read from her award-winning picture book about bullying How the Moon Regained Her Shape (Arbordale, 2006; 6th edition 2018). Her other books include the poetry books Exodus (WordTech Editions, 2014), Folk Concert: Changing Times (Anaphora Literary Press, 2012) and Traffic Stop (Finishing Line Press, 2011), and the middle-grade chapter book for kids The Passover Surprise (Fictive Press, 2015, 2016). Heller’s website is https://www.janetruthheller.com/ and the Michigan State Fair’s website is www.MichiganStateFairllc.com #books #literature #childrensbooks #poetry #middlegrade #picturebook Janet Ruth Heller reading her work at the Kalamazoo Public Library; photo by Hedy Habra

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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.