Tanya Stone Celebrates 100th Book with STAGE WRITE! to Benefit Young Writers Project, 10/25

Young adult and children's-book author Tanya Lee Stone will be celebrating her 100th book with an event called "Stage Write!" to benefit the Young Writers Project on October 25, 2014.

Stone has written books about animals, nature, science, history, and biography. She also writes poetry and fiction. Stone's first young adult novel, A Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl (Wendy Lamb/Random House) received starred reviews, as well as honors from the New York Public Library, Texas Tayshas State Reading List, School Library Journal, the ALA, Maryland Best Books, and the Kentucky Bluegrass Master Award List. Award-winning picture books include Elizabeth Leads the Way (Holt), Sandy's Circus(Viking), and Who Says Women Can't Be Doctors?! (Holt). She has a picture book coming out in 2014 about Jane Addams called The House That Jane Built (Holt). Her Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream won an NCTE Orbis Pictus Honor, Jane Addams Honor, YALSA Nonfiction Finalist, Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor, the Bank Street Flora Straus Steiglitz Award, and the Robert F. Sibert Medal. The Good, the Bad, and the Barbie won SCBWI's Golden Kite Award. Many of the stories she now finds herself drawn to deal with themes of strong women and empowering girls, or little-known episodes in American history.

Stone is a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, the Authors Guild, PEN American Center, ALAN (The Assembly on Literature for Adolescents), and the National Council Against Censorship. She has been a featured speaker at the Texas Book Festival, the New England Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, the Rochester Book Festival, the Connecticut Reading Association, the Vermont League of Writers, National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), the International Reading Association (IRA), the American Library Association (ALA), as well as multiple schools and libraries. She is the Co-director of Kindling Words, an annual retreat for published children's book authors and illustrators. Stone also writes articles and reviews and has been published in VOYA, School Library Journal, Horn Book, and the New York Times. She teaches writing at Champlain College and has two fabulous kids.

You can find the author blogging over at (live journal and Facebook). She is also a monthly contributor to INK (Interesting Nonfiction for Kids).

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