CBC's "Meet the Author" This Month: Ed Young

The Children's Book Council's online magazine features Ed Young as its "Meet the Author" author this month. In his essay, Ed Young answers the question: Do you have any advice for budding artists, especially those who aspire to become picture book writers or illustrators?

Young's answer is: Find your passion.

"Often passion reveals itself as an interest and beckons you. Immerse yourself in that 'bliss' and you'll discover a need to pursue it. Once passion grabs you, you are on your way, because you are no longer determined by 'shoulds.' Your most treasured works become the remains of your meditation or process or whatever you choose to call it, because by losing yourself in them, they transform you. Fame and wealth are by-products."

Read the rest of his essay here.

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