Rebecca Stead
Rebecca Stead
Rebecca Steadis an American writer of fiction for children and teens. She won the American Newbery Medal in 2010, the oldest award in children's literature, for her second novel When You Reach Me...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionChildren's Author
Date of Birth16 January 1968
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
actively books
A lot of my ideas for books come from newspaper articles. But I don't like to be actively looking for ideas.
books help learning noticing reactions teach
I think that's one of the most important things that books do: not to teach you anything, but to help you teach yourself by just being in the world of the book and having your own thoughts and reactions and noticing your own reactions and thoughts and learning about yourself that way.
food kids shop
My kids really like food, and they like to cook, so it's a lot of fun to shop with them.
hard work
Try really, really hard not to judge your own work too harshly.
nice black different
Life is a million different dots making one gigantic picture. And maybe the big picture is nice, maybe it's amazing, but if you're standing with your face pressed up against a bunch of black dots, it's really hard to tell.
running school secretary
She's called the secretary, but as far as I can tell she basically runs the school.
mom honest kind
Mom's always telling me to smile and hoping I'll turn into a smiley person, which, to be honest, is kind of annoying.
nice book people
Nice tights," I snorted. Or I tried to snort, anyway. I'm not exactly sure how, though people in books are always doing it.
mom running dad
Mom. She always says to look at the big picture. How all of the little things don't matter in the long run. . . I know that Mom is right about the big picture. But Dad is right too: Life is really just a bunch of nows, one after the other. The dots matter.
past bitterness accepting
But every person has to learn to accept what has happened in the past. Without bitterness. Or there is no point in continuing with life.
life-is bunch
Life is really just a bunch of nows, one after the other.
writing together stories
The writing process is not just putting down one page after another-it's a lot of writing and then rewriting, restructuring the story, changing the way things come together.
boredom people mind
Boredom is what happens to people who have no control over their minds.
father missing want
Didn't you ever have a father yourself? You don't want him for a reason. You want him because he's your father.' So I figured it's because I never had a father that I don't want one now. A person can't miss something she never had.