Esther Hershenhorn Mailing Address: 2300 Lincoln Park West, #224 Chicago, IL 60614 County: Cook e-mail: esthersh@aol.com Phone: work/home: 773-880-1988 fax:  847-256-9462 Genre: Fiction (picture books, middle-grade fiction)

Periodical Publications:

• Book Links
• Children's Writers and Illustrators Market
• Dads Magazine
• J.A.M. Magazine
• The Prairie Wind

Book Publications:

• I is for Illinois (ghb '00)
• There Goes Lowell's Party!, Holiday House Inc., March 1998
• Educational materials

Forthcoming Publications:

• The Confe$$ion$ and $ecret$ of Howard J. Fingerhut (April '02)
• Chicken Soup By Heart (Simon & Schuster September '02)
• Fancy That (Holiday House '03)
• The A to Z of Illinois (ghb '02)
• "The Facts: Fictions of There Goes Lowell's Party," Book Links Magazine (ALA), July 1998

Awards, Fellowships, Grants and Honors:

• Heads the Illinois chapter of children's book writers & illustrators
• The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators Member of the Year 1998

Recent Readings, Performances and Productions:

Recent Workshops:

• Student Presentations -

• "A Reader, A Writer, An Author, Oh, My!" - Boulder Hill Elementary, Montgomery, IL
• "One Writer's Journey" - Marquette Elementary, Chicago, IL
• "Out and About on Any Character's Plot Line" St. John's, Indiana - Grades 5
• Writing Picture Books: The Tale of THERE GOES LOWELL'S PARTY!" - Stone Academy, Chicago, IL
• Telling Our Stories - Skokie Public Library, Skokie, IL - Young Writers

• Writer Workshops -

• "Oh, The Places You Can Go!" - resources for children's book writers - Off Campus Writers Workshop - Winnetka, IL

• Teacher-Parent Workshops

• "Oh, The Places I've Been!" - a children's book writer's life - National-Louis University - The Writer's Program
• "The Hope Business: Writing for Books for Children Today" - the Union League
• "Read it again, teacher!" - classroom strategies for reading books aloud - Healy School, Chicago
• "The Facts and Fictions of There Goes Lowell's Party!" - Ft. Wayne Science Museum, Ft. Wayne, IN.
• "One Writer's Journey - Traveling the Universal Plot Line," Butler U. (Indianapolis, IN) January 1998
• "The Fickle Fingers of Fate" (for reading teachers and librarians), Northern Illinois U., March 1998

Present Employment:

• Writing Teacher - Newberry Library, Ragdale Foundation
• Writing Coach
• Writer

Preferred Audience:

• K-6 (students); middle grade/high school on writing and writing for children Adults - writers, parents, teachers, librarians, booksellers

Willing to travel:

• yes, anywhere