by Deb Aronson | May 2, 2018 | Blog
How to Keep Going in the Dead of Winter, When You Mostly Want to Hibernate and Eat Chocolate Well, one of my new year’s resolutions was to write a blog every week. And so far, so good. It turns out I wrote six in January. And I felt good in January! I felt...
by Deb Aronson | Apr 16, 2018 | Blog
The Significance of Snowflake Bentley and the Power of Jealousy I have read a lot of books in my life. But Snowflake Bentley, by Jackie Briggs Martin, stands out in my mind because it was the first picture book biography I’d ever seen of someone who wasn’t already a...
by Deb Aronson | Apr 10, 2018 | Blog
Non-fiction Conference in Iowa was Inspiring and Rejuvenating This past Saturday I went to a non-fiction SCBWI (Society for Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators) conference in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. I went with mixed feelings: it’s a four-hour drive, I had just had...
by Deb Aronson | Jan 30, 2018 | Profiles
When he was nine years old, Howard Ingber got a chemistry set for Christmas. By the time of the first explosion, Ingber was hooked. “Explosions, smoke, gunpowder, sulfur. The kit showed you how to make nitrocellulose (guncotton),” Ingber remembers. “Today you’d have...
by Deb Aronson | Dec 30, 2017 | Features
In high school in Aurora, IL, Kirk Nass loved math, science and knowing how things worked. When he saw a flyer about majoring in chemical engineering at University of Illinois he remembers thinking, “Wow! I can do math, science and chemistry all in one.” Growing up in...
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