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Telling stories with visuals is an ancient art. We've been drawing pictures on cave walls for centuries. It's like what they say about the perfect picture book. The art and the text stand alone, but together, they create something even better. Kids who need to can grab onto those graphic elements and find their way into the story.

~Deborah Wiles

Topics: About Alone Ancient Art Been Better Book Cave Centuries Create Drawing Elements Even Find Grab Graphic Kids Like Need Onto Perfect Picture Picture Book Pictures Say Something Stand Stories Story Telling Text They Say Those Together Visuals Walls Way Who

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I am always telling students that a story is not just words. You can tell a story with dance or paint or music. Kids and adults are visual learners, auditory learners. There are those of us who need to touch it. Storytelling encompasses so much more than words on paper.

~Deborah Wiles

Topics: Adult Always Am Dance Just Kids Learners More Much Music Need Paint Paper Story Storytelling Students Tell Telling Than Those Touch Us Visual Who Words You I Am

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Open your arms to life! Let it strut into your heart in all its messy glory!

~Deborah Wiles

Topics: Arms Glory Heart Life Messy Open Strut Your

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As a children's author, you get to advocate for reading and writing in general, in a way an adult author might not be able to. It's a really interesting dance we do to get literature into the hands of young people and to help them to become literate and become readers; we want them to grow up reading and continue to do so when they're adults.

~Deborah Wiles

Topics: Able Adult Advocate Author Become Children Continue Dance General Get Grow Grow Up Hands Help Interesting Literate Literature Might People Readers Reading Really Them Up Want Way Writing You Young Young People

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There's always something good to come out of disappointment: Comfort.

~Deborah Wiles

Topics: Always Come Comfort Disappointment Good Out Something Something Good

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So often, we don't realize that the very moments in which we live become our history, our story.

~Deborah Wiles

Topics: Become History Live Moments Often Our Realize Story Very Which

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I would lie in bed at night composing letters to Kennedy and Khrushchev, trying to convince them that they really didn't want to blow up the world. It seemed so simple to me that we just shouldn't hurt each other.

~Deborah Wiles

Topics: Bed Blow Composing Convince Each Hurt Just Kennedy Letters Lie Me Night Other Really Seemed Simple Them Trying Up Want World Would

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I want young readers to know that to tell their own story is the most important thing they'll ever do.

~Deborah Wiles

Topics: Ever Important Important Thing Know Most Most Important Thing Own Readers Story Tell The Most Important Thing Want Young

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It's an extension of what I do also as part of making my living - I go into schools and work with kids on writing, and I do assembly programs often. Each one is different because each school has different requirements.

~Deborah Wiles

Topics: Also Assembly Because Different Each Each One Extension Go Kids Living Making Often Part Programs Requirements School Schools Work Writing

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I loved everything about being ten, eleven, and twelve years old, and seem to make most of my heroines and heroes that age so I can reexperience all those pitfalls and wonderful discoveries. It helps me to figure out my own life when I write from that eleven year old place!

~Deborah Wiles

Topics: About Age Being Discoveries Eleven Everything Figure Helps Heroes Heroines Life Loved Make Me Most My Own Old Out Own Pitfalls Place Seem Ten Those Twelve Wonderful Write Year Years I Can I Write

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: May 5th, 1953

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