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I’m Kate Messner, author of books for kids. To learn more about me, click on the menu above, or on the book covers to the right, or on anything that might look like it leads somewhere fun. (Hint: the frogs are usually jumping somewhere!)

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Latest Blog Posts

Thoughts on Inspiration, Part 2: The Fine Art of Faking It

Writing is special. It is. Telling stories for a living and having other people connect with those stories is magical. And that’s part of the problem when it comes to ...

Some thoughts on Inspiration, and writing anyway

How do you get inspired to write every day? I get asked this question quite a bit…by writers and people who think they might like to be writers. It’s a question ...

Real Revision: An Interview with Lauren Oliver

If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you know that my first book for teachers, REAL REVISION: AUTHORS’ STRATEGIES TO SHARE WITH STUDENT WRITERS, was released from Stenhouse ...

I'm giving a TED Talk!

While I got the official invitation in December and have known about this for several weeks, it's still surreal, like maybe I've been imagining the whole thing. But today, TED announced ...

OVER AND UNDER THE SNOW's fox...in real life!

OVER AND UNDER THE SNOW illustrator Chris Silas Neal just shared this YouTube video on his blog, and it was too amazing not to pass along. Remember this spread in ...

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