Teachers and parents, looking for activities for your littles? New fun activities posted weekly!
Monday, July 17, 2023
Build A Monster
Thursday, June 29, 2023
Summer Reading Activity for (Spooky) Kids
Looking for reading activities for your summer? I hope to start posting weekly games and activities, starting with this!
Monday, March 6, 2023
An Author's Many Hats
Happy Monday! And happy March! So glad to have January and February over and done with, yeah? I'm feeling the tireds and the winter-time blues, so let's see if we can push through together!
An Authors Many Hats:
What other hats do we authors wear?
When Are You Gonna Write Real Books for Adults?
A Question For Teachers:
@sarahallenbooks Hey teachers! especially elementary and middle school teachers. I have a question for you. #teachersoftiktok #teacherlife #teachertok #teachertiktok ♬ Blue Blood - Heinz Kiessling
Book Recommendation: This book by Delilah Dawson is so well written and lots of good spooky fun! You and your upper-middle grade readers will love it.
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Monday, February 27, 2023
How To Write A Query Letter
I hope you've all had a great week! I spent most of mine working on some freelance writing work as well as the zero draft of my next middle grade novel--it's a monster book, and has been great fun to write! What are you all working on?
How To Write A Query Letter
Toast: A Poem
@sarahallenbooks The surprise end of this song sponsored by my mom's pantry. Thank you for coming to my "I Don't Want To Write" concert. And thank you @literallyjohngreen and @hankgreen1 for the Tshirt. #writertok #writersoftiktok #authorsoftiktok #sillysong #songs #songwriter ♬ original sound - Sarah Allen | Author
Book Recommendation: One of my very favorites of recent years is Scary Stories for Young Foxes, by Christian McKay Heideker. I was so thrilled when it won the Newbery! Check it out!
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Monday, February 20, 2023
Teach Yourself Illustration and Cartooning
Teach Yourself Illustration and Cartooning
Hi friends! Are you at all interested in illustration or comics drawing? Personally, I'm a writer first and foremost, but I have always been interested in illustrated chapter books, picture books, and graphic novels. As writers, having those skills simply opens up additional opportunities, right? So the last few months I've really been diving in to it. I've never taken an art class and don't feel like I'm ever going to be a great artist, but here's the key to all this, that I learned from the amazing graphic novelist and illustrator, Jarod Rosello: your art doesn't have to be great, it just has to communicate. I feel like that idea freed me from the constraints of feeling like I actually had to be good at this, ha! And since then, I've been going through a lot of tutorials on the site 21-Draw, and they have been incredibly helpful. So if you're interested in being able to open more writing opportunities for yourself with some art communication skills, I recommend it to you!