Tag: children’s literature

• TRANSCRIPT: Monstrous Middle-Grade: Interview with Ally Russell

  Hello and welcome to the Monster & The Child, where childhood studies and monster studies collide. I am Dr. Kathleen Kellett, and I am extremely excited to welcome you to interview weekend over here on the channel. Over the next three days, you’ll be getting three new videos, all of which include very interesting people…

  kathleenmkellett

  March 13, 2026

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  Ally Russell, children’s literature, Down Came the Spiders, interviews, It Came from the Trees, middle-grade lit, Mystery James Digs Her Own Grave, The Monster & The Child, transcripts

• Well, Bless My Soul

  So. It sure has been a long time since I’ve blogged! Full transparency, I’m mostly popping back on here because I’m getting up on the ol’ querying horse again, and if anyone actually follows up on the “you can find me online” paragraph, I don’t want them to think that I died a year and…

  kathleenmkellett

  July 5, 2021

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  children’s literature, middle-grade story, new story, Our Necropolis, querying, Sky Child, Soul, writing, YA lit

• How To Respect Young Readers And Also Stop Annoying Me: A Field Guide

  Dear everyone: stop pitching me your picture book ideas. The first and frankly best reason for this is that I don’t write picture books! I had to try my hand at it for a workshop in my Master’s program, and while the experiment was kind of fun, the end result was very bad. I don’t have any…

  kathleenmkellett

  March 31, 2019

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  bad ideas, children’s literature, picture books