Cheryl Klein

A Peek at the Creative Space of Cheryl Klein

Photo credit: Calvin Werry I’ve routinely featured authors and illustrators for Creative Spaces, but today I thought it would be fun to shake things up a bit. Please join me in welcoming children’s book editor Cheryl Klein! Cheryl Klein is Senior Editor at Arthur A. Levine Books (an imprint of Scholastic) and has recently self-published a collection of her talks and essays titled Second Sight: An Editor’s Talks on Writing, Revising, and Publishing Books for Children and Young Adults. (Click that link to learn more about the book and how to order a copy for yourself.) In her editorial career, Cheryl has worked on a range of titles and with a variety of authors and illustrators including Katherine Paterson, Lisa Yee, Dan Santat, Kate Constable, Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich, Mary Newell DePalma, and Senator Ted Kennedy.… Read the rest